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.
The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.
There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans.
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The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.
Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.
When I looked at the other artists when I first started at Marvel, I was surrounded by giants. It was very intimidating.
The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.
There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.
Since SpaceX's very beginnings, they have talked about recovering and reusing at least the first stages of their rockets.
As plans for the first lunar landing started to be made, nobody had really thought about who would be out first.
In the first few years, it was at least plausible to come in in the morning and read all the Usenet traffic that had come in, and 15 minutes later be off doing something useful.
Foul-ups in testing are not uncommon, especially when the test setup is being tried for the first time.
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.
I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their...
Why call out the champion in my first title defense? Because that's who Henry Cejudo is.
The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the...
Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.
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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.
