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.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Our efforts to preserve and protect the Alamo are first and foremost about preserving and protecting the story of the battle itself.
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I've been interested in American politics since I was eight. That was in 1968. It was an interesting year. I was a huge Eugene McCarthy supporter, so I guess he was the first senator I really knew about and cared...
First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.
I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?
The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United...
The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.
First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a...
When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species.
'Empire of the Sun' is one of the films that I often think about. I think it had a profound effect on me when I first watched it as a teenager.
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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.
