Firsts Quotes - Page 40

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

The first person you have to resurrect is yourself

Success only hurts the first time.

Philo of Alexandria introduced in the first century what has been described as the 'Hellenizing of the Old Testament,' or the allegorical method of exegesis. By this, as Erdmann observes, the Bible narrative was found to contain a deeper, and particularly an allegorical interpretation, in addition to its literal interpretation; this was not conscious disingenuousness but a natural mode of amalgamating the Greek philosophic with the Hebraic doctrines.

Loyalty is the first law of God.

If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.

First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now.

When nobody speaks your name, or even knows it, you, knowing it, must be the first to speak it.

The Internet is a communication medium that allows for the first time, the communication of many to many, in chosen time, on a global scale.

All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.

FROM THE FIRST DAY YOU ARE TOLD IF YOU WANT TO BE THE BEST THEN STAY OUT THE NIGHTCLUBS!

I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I've ever felt to home.

Things have to be funny first, and if they want to have a point, that's awesome.

I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]

If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

God's first creature, which was light.

I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.

Even [Bill] Clinton ran on my program of "workfare instead of welfare." Of which I was the first American politician, starting in 1989, who brought that up. And that helped him get elected.

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.