Quotes and Sayings About Firsts
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God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.
-- Amy Carmichael -
If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael -
Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.
-- Amy Chua -
I think the first time you try anything in a public way, you feel really exposed.
-- Amy Grant -
I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote. I don't know how it's going to get there, but I seem to need the destination. I need to know where I end up. It never changes, ever.
-- Amy Hempel -
That’s the first step to learning: admitting what you don’t know.
-- Amy Neftzger -
Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
-- Amy Tan -
We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
-- Amy Tan -
The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes
-- Amy Waldman -
I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.
-- Amy Winehouse -
First rule about vampires, don`t believe anything you read.
-- An Na -
The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.
-- Anabel Jensen -
Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.
-- Anais Nin -
When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.
-- Anais Nin -
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
-- Anais Nin -
In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control
-- Anatoly Karpov -
Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF
-- Anatoly Karpov -
Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.
-- André Aciman -
It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first sight' and 'honeymoon'. All this shoddy terminology is on top of that tainted with the most reactionary irony.
-- Andre Breton -
It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.
-- Andre Breton -
It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
-- Andre Breton -
People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.
-- Andre Carson -
First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.
-- Andre Leon Talley -
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
-- Andre Malraux -
In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
-- Andre Malraux -
The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
-- Andre Malraux -
The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
-- Andre Malraux -
I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.
-- Andre Rieu
