Quotes and Sayings About Firsts
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We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.
-- Alan Chadwick -
Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step.
-- Alan Cohen -
I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
-- Alan Cumming -
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
-- Alan Kay -
Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.
-- Alan Keyes -
Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.
-- Alan Keyes -
When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.
-- Alan King -
Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
-- Alan King -
First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.
-- Alan Kulwicki -
If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
-- Alan Lewis -
Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
-- Alan Moore -
Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.
-- Alan Rufus -
First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere.
-- Alan Shearer -
The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.
-- Alan Shepard -
When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried
-- Alan Shepard -
If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
-- Alan Thicke -
When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first... Of course, to observe is not its real duty, we already know exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed...Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious.
-- Alan Turing -
To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.
-- Alanis Morissette -
I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.
-- Alanna Ubach -
The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained
-- Albert Allen Bartlett -
When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
-- Albert Brooks -
Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.
-- Albert Camus -
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
-- Albert Camus -
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
-- Albert Camus -
The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent
-- Albert Camus -
... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.
-- Albert Camus -
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.
-- Albert Camus -
For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.
-- Albert Camus -
If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.
-- Albert Einstein