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.
In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President.
Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.
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CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.
I was counsel on the full veterans committee, the first Vietnam veteran to serve as a full-committee counsel in Congress. It stunned me that there was a 600,000-case backlog of claims. During my time in the Senate, it became 900,000.
First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.
The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.
'West To A Land Of Plenty' shows a family heading west, first on board a train, and then going into areas as yet untamed by rail by way of an ox-drawn wagon.
As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.
When I launched my first campaign in 1999, I knew that the arc of my public service would have many chapters.
In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq.
I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
My philosophy on quarterbacks is, first and foremost, you've got to keep them healthy and on the field.
I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
By the time 'Dumbo's Circus' wrapped production of its 120 episodes, I had an agent, and I had scored my first feature film gig.
First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.
Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.
My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.
Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.
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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.
