Firsts Quotes - Page 68

I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.

There's nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.

It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government

The music comes first. It will always be first

I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful.

When you keep God in first place, He will take you to places you've never dreamed of

The first time I smoked weed was with Demi [Lovato] and Miley [Cyrus]. I must have been 17 or 18. They kept saying, ‘Try it! Try it!’ so I gave it a shot, and it was all right. I don’t even smoke weed that often anymore.

We need our veterans to set an example, like being the first ones there. A veteran is entitled to a bigger paycheck, but not a special set of rules.

Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures who were black... But neither of us could do national advertising because the South wouldn't buy it. That was the social stigma we lived under.

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.

What if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

Some part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for the mess you made in the first place.

Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.

A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.

My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.

In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.

Peace is first of all the art of being.

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland

Second place is really the first loser.