Quotes and Sayings About Firsts
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I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.
-- Adrian Mitchell -
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
-- Adrian Mitchell -
The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.
-- Adrienne von Speyr -
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
-- Aeschylus -
It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
-- Aeschylus -
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
-- Aesop -
The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.
-- African Spir -
I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
-- Agnes Denes -
We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
-- Agnes Repplier -
For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
-- Agnes Smedley -
The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.
-- Ahmed Chalabi -
The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.
-- Ahmed Zaki Yamani -
The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
-- Ahmet Ertegun -
I am pissed off at your insensitive inability to understand why I'm pissed off in the first place.
-- Ai Yazawa -
All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.
-- Aime Martin -
Sure, I'd love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
-- Aimee Mullins -
What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.
-- Aimee Semple McPherson -
In terms of finding that first international recognition of my work, coming back to Cannes is such a milestone in my life because it began actually with 'Devdas'.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
Drunken Master (the first one). If I hadn't seen this movie, I would never have come up with Dragonball.
-- Akira Toriyama -
It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.
-- Akon -
This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll.
-- Al Arbour -
My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
-- Al Pacino -
It's better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
-- Al Ries -
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
-- Alain de Benoist -
My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.
-- Alain Resnais -
I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
-- Alan Alda -
I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.
-- Alan Ball -
News is only the first rough draft of history.
-- Alan Barth
