Firsts Quotes - Page 49

To native peoples, there is no such thing as the first, second, and third worlds; there is only an exploiting world ... whether its technological system is capitalist or communist ... and a host world. Native peoples, who occupy more land, make up the host world.

The first hundred years are the hardest.

I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object' as well.

My natural-born sarcasm, when it's unimpeded, can be a bit overbearing at times and I'm the first to admit that.

Sir: This point of observation commands an area nearly 50 miles in diameter. The city, with its girdle of encampments, presents a superb scene. I have pleasure in sending you this first dispatch ever telegraphed from an aerial station.

Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.

I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it.

Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.

It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions.

For government to give, it must first take away.

Have you noticed when you go on a diet, the first thing you lose is your temper.

I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.

People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring

As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.

You gotta be hungry for it. You’ve got to put everything you got on it. EVERYTHING! Every second. You have to be the first one in line. That’s how leaders are born.

At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent

Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.

I can honestly say that if I was told at this moment that I was dying, not my first, not my second, but certainly my third thought would be that I should never see Italy again.

But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.

If you can, you will quickly find that the greatest rate of return you will earn is on your own personal spending. Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich.

At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.

He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.