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That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.

Quotes by Richard Lugar

And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time.

Quotes by Richard M. Daley

A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.

Quotes by Richard Lamm

'Syndicate' is technically the first game I worked on.

Quotes by Richard K. Morgan

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court.

Quotes by Richard Krajicek

When I first started writing, I wrote a book called 'Bruiser,' and it was pretty much set in Chicago.

Quotes by Richard House

I was first exposed to the idea of macro-molecular sequences while I was a postdoctoral fellow with Jack Strominger at Harvard. During that time, I briefly visited Fred Sanger's laboratory in Cambridge, England, to learn the methodology of RNA fingerprinting...

Quotes by Richard J. Roberts

Is there anything so delicious as the first exploration of a great library - alone - unwatched?

Quotes by Richard Jefferies

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.

Quotes by Richard Jefferson

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

Quotes by Richard Ford

I'd be the first to say that cybersecurity is a difficult and challenging matter.

Quotes by Richard Cordray

I actually thought that the marketplace was pretty imbalanced when the consumer bureau was first created and financial institutions did not have someone looking carefully over their shoulder to look after the interest of consumers.

Quotes by Richard Cordray

I think the first movie I ever saw was a 'Star Wars' triple bill, when 'Return of the Jedi' was released.

Quotes by Richard Coyle

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.

Quotes by Richard Dawkins

My next film, 'The Prince Of Players,' was Hollywood's first turkey in CinemaScope - when CinemaScope was new and hotter than a pistol.

Quotes by Richard Burton

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Quotes by Richard Cecil

The first three issues of 'Cemetery Dance' were mainly horror, but now it's really a cross-genre magazine. It's all just snowballed.

Quotes by Richard Chizmar

I'm not the first Christian to have a fruity past. I hesitate to compare myself to St Augustine or St Paul, but there is a precedent for this sort of thing.

Quotes by Richard Coles

I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.

Quotes by Richard Briers

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

Quotes by Richard Armour

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this page include a quote about starting an NFL career?
Yes. One quote looks back on the very beginning of an NFL career, crediting teammates named Tim Dwight and Eric Parker with showing what work ethic it takes to be an NFL receiver. It's a good example of first marking an early, formative stage of a career. For more on early milestones, see First Step quotes.
Is there a quote about horror movies or scaring an audience?
Yes - one quote states it plainly: "The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself." It's a compact idea about confronting your own fear before you can frighten anyone else. For more on how first moments set the tone, browse First Impression quotes.
Does this collection touch on science, like physics?
It does. One quote discusses the uncertainty relation, explaining that it does not refer to the past, and using the example of an electron's velocity being at first known and its position then exactly measured. It's a more technical, scientific sense of first.
What does the quote about the constitution say?
One quote makes a direct statement: "The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens." It's a clear, principled statement about equal citizenship. It naturally pairs with First Class quotes on this page.
Do all the quotes here use "first" the same way?
Not at all - that's part of the appeal. Across this page, first describes a rookie's early days in the league, a monster's first scare, an electron's first known velocity, and even first-class citizenship. If you like exploring different kinds of firsts, First Love quotes make a nice companion stop.

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