Quotes and Sayings About Firsts
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Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
-- A. A. Allen -
Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.
-- A. A. Gill -
One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!
-- A. B. Simpson -
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
-- A. E. Hotchner -
It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
-- A. E. Waite -
First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.
-- A. E. Waite -
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
-- A. J. Liebling -
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
-- A. R. Ammons -
I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
-- A. Scott Berg -
If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
-- Aaliyah -
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
-- Aaron Allston -
Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.
-- Aaron Allston -
I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.
-- Aaron Baddeley -
The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
-- Aaron Hill -
Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.
-- Aaron Hoopes -
That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
-- Aaron Levie -
When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
-- Aaron Paul -
The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.
-- Aaron Paul -
Matt Hock was the first person who showed me how much fun and how cool it can be to be a Christian,
-- Aaron Rodgers -
It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.
-- Abbey Lincoln -
The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
-- Abdolkarim Soroush -
I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
-- Abel Korzeniowski -
The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
-- Abraham Cowley
