Quotes and Sayings About Firsts
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To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first.
-- Alfred Capus -
The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds
-- Alfred de Vigny -
Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.
-- Alfred M. Gray -
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?
-- Alfred Schnittke -
All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.
-- Alfred the Great -
The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.
-- Algernon Blackwood -
Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.
-- Ali Liebegott -
In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.
-- Ali Vincent -
There is no question, therefore, that the work to be done in familiarising the general public with the nature of the Mysteries is of paramount importance at this time. These Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the Masonic Fraternity ... When the Great One comes with His disciples and initiates we shall have ... the restoration of the Mysteries and their exoteric presentation as a consequence of the first initiation.
-- Alice Bailey -
Women have been held back and limited throughout the centuries. Creation could not have been rendered, not even considered, let alone be brought into manifestation without woman. She is principal, a powerful energy. She is first.
-- Alice Coltrane -
I bought a camera with my first ever paycheck.
-- Alice Englert -
When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.
-- Alice Morse Earle -
Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.
-- Alice Sebold -
When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.
-- Alicia Sacramone -
At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then
-- Alison Bechdel -
You have forced your way into my Hua, Eona. Change me. First, by your power- then, just by who you are.
-- Alison Goodman -
This is a landmark opportunity for all that live and work in the Yukon. The Territory is now one step closer to realizing the potential that geothermal heat and power has for the economy, the environment, First Peoples, tax-payers and businesses.
-- Alison Thompson -
Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.
-- Alix Kates Shulman -
In fact, as far as one can tell, Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year, and maybe even than Bush killed in his final year.
-- Allan Nairn -
If you would be a writer, first be a reader
-- Allan W. Eckert -
If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.
-- Allen Carr -
She watched the first episode and she was like, 'This is feminism?' And then by the end of the season, she was like, 'This is feminism.' The tone changed completely. She was really psyched about it.
-- Allison Williams -
It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.
-- Ally Carter -
First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail
-- Ally Carter -
There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.
-- Ally Condie
