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.
This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade.
To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.
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Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel.
When you are the first of anything, there is a bigger responsibility put on you.
It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
When the band first formed, everybody had been sidemen. So they said, 'In this band there are no sidemen,' and when I joined the band, it was still the same. There were some power struggles emerging, because Henley and Frey...
I started wrestling when I was five. I lost my first match and cried in front of my dad, and I never wanted to do that again.
I am not trying to be the next anyone - I am going to be the first Dolph Ziggler!
As an MP, my first duty is to act in the national interest, regardless of party affiliation.
For comics, Edinburgh makes no financial or medical sense. Get an audience; that's the first task. Once the punters are in, simply make them laugh for an hour, and then sweat on the critics.
The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.
When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.
I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.
I am an actress. My first film was a Telugu film, my second film was Bollywood, and third was Indo-Chinese.
I started to study psychology but had to stop when I got into the first team.
I'm the first British artist to have two successive number ones on his own independent label.
They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!
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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.
