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 letter K was the first one in the alphabet which had not, with more or less justification, been used to designate other vitamins, and it also happened to be the first letter in the word 'koagulation' according to the...
When we first showed the Karma in January 2008, we had barely started the company.
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Some restrictions should be imposed on population. First of all, each city should have certain population, certain limit.
I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida - a theatre company that stages plays concerned with political and social issues.
A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.
I don't classify myself as the first space tourist because I wasn't as though I paid and had a holiday out of it - although I had a fab time.
I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through.
But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of.
I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.
When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke.
I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of 'Performance' called 'The Entertainer' with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.
I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production.
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.
If you want to be in the first team you have to show how much you're worth at U21 level.
I started young. My first record came out when I was - what? 18? So I was in the studio when I was 15, 16.
'Gilmore Girls' was the first show I ever worked on and was my absolute favorite show at the time.
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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.
