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.
You've just got to deliver the first blow. In football, you're going to get hit. Don't let someone deliver the hit to you. You've got to deliver the hit to them.
The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.
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When I get a script, it's the only time that I get to be an audience member with the first-time experience of that movie. That's the first and only time.
'Threatz' was when I stepped into my own as an individual and one of the first songs we put on SoundCloud.
My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.
The fact is, for the first 10 years I toured as a solo artist, I wasn't playing any of the songs I didn't write or sing.
When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.
When I first got to Motown, Smokey was already a fixture there. To me, he is one of the greatest songwriters and poets, so anything they ask me to do for Smokey is going to get a yes.
I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.
First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.
What was cool about my career, Jack LaLanne gave me my first break on TV. I was his co-host.
In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles.
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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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.
