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First Place Quotes

Reflections on why things started the way they did.

These first place quotes look back at original intentions, whether in education, history, or personal identity, asking why something happened the way it did to begin with. For related reflections, see our First collection.

Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.

Quotes by Zhang Zhidong

We in Nigeria have seen just how difficult it is to get back stolen assets from the international financial system, such as banks that ought not have received those funds in the first place if even the most routine questions...

Quotes by Yemi Osinbajo

What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended...

Quotes by Yahya Jammeh

When I started making money, I immediately began buying property and fixing it up. I was always searching for the next neighborhood. The first place I bought when I was 19. I found a huge loft on the Lower East...

Quotes by Trish Goff

America Quotes

The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.

Quotes by Tracy Austin

I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the...

Quotes by Tony Iommi

There are only two places in the league - first place and no place.

Quotes by Tom Seaver

Performing on stage is my first love - it's why I wanted to be an actor in the first place - and 'Arcadia' is the highlight of my career so far. I love the intimacy of a live theatre audience...

Quotes by Tom Riley

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

Quotes by Thomas Jordan Jarvis

Being Quotes

Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's...

Quotes by Thomas Bangalter

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

Quotes by Stephan Jenkins

The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

Quotes by Sam Snead

For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.

Quotes by Robert W. Welch, Jr.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

Quotes by Robert Baden-Powell

Doing Quotes

Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally,...

Quotes by Rahul Dravid

I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever...

Quotes by Peter Jurasik

People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don't...

Quotes by Pete Hamill

The band that made me want to be a musician in the first place was the Beatles. And I think John Lennon used to say something like, ‘We're just a singing group,' when he talked about the band. So that's...

Quotes by Paul Gilbert

I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.

Quotes by Patricia Ireland

First Quotes

Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.

Quotes by Olga Korbut

Frequently Asked Questions

What does 'in the first place' mean across these quotes?
It's used to question original intentions and root causes, whether discussing education's purpose or why a historical decision was made to begin with.
Is there a quote about education's original purpose?
Yes, one argues that education's primary role was originally to help people become good, with usefulness treated as a secondary goal.
Do any quotes reference historical trade or resources?
One reflects on the trade interests that first drew outside powers to a resource-rich region, and the environmental toll that followed.
Is there a personal or emotional quote about 'first place' as a milestone?
Yes, one describes a formative publication as the first place someone felt truly seen and represented, highlighting personal significance.
What other pages pair well with first place quotes?
Try First quotes for related reflections, or Being quotes for more on identity and self.

From colonial-era trade history to personal milestones, these lines show how the phrase can mean both origin and pride. Pair this page with Being or Doing quotes for more on identity and action.