First Quotes
On beginnings, and what a 'first' really changes.
The quotes gathered here treat 'first' loosely: a rookie athlete crediting the teammates who set the tone early, a filmmaker's take on what should scare an audience right away, and a physicist weighing what can and can't be known first. If early relationships resonate, see our First Love.
My first book was a car crash. I tried to find all the copies and destroy them.
The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.
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I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.
Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments.
My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.
We should be the first to help disadvantaged people. What would happen if other countries decided to follow our example?
My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.
When it broke out in the mid 1990s, the web was society's first at-scale digital artifact. It spread in orders of ten, first thousands, then millions, then hundreds of millions of pages - and on it went, to the billions...
After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the...
I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world.
I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.
The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.
Brass bands are part of my upbringing. Brass band records were among the first records I listened to.
In many ways, shooting my first feature was more difficult than I had thought it would be, but it was still the most rewarding experience I have ever had.
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One quote pushes past personal firsts into a civic claim about equal standing under the constitution, which broadens the theme beyond simple nostalgia. Related pages include First Impression and First Step.
