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Quotes About First

Urban formally announced what would become the First Crusade in the town of Clermont Ferrand
~ Roderick Beaton
the believer enters into the reality of Mary's spiritual motherhood and her existing as the first person to have benefitted from the salvation wrought by her Son.
~ Romanus Cessario
Being a birther doesn't necessarily mean you're a racist, but racists were more attuned to the birther conspiracy because it reinforced the notion, in their minds, that the first black president wasn't "one of us.
~ Ronald J. Sider
My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.
~ Rory Bremner
the first law enforcement death in the United States—like so many that came later—involved complex elements of race and arose out of conflict between the haves and the have-nots.
~ Rosa Brooks
Most of the pending legislation, if passed, would result in the end of our last holdings on this continent and destroy our dignity and distinction as the first inhabitants of this rich land
~ Louise Erdrich
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
~ Lucille Ball
Esse primeiro palpitar da seiva, essa revelação da consciência a si própria, nunca mais me esqueceu, nem achei que lhe fosse comparável qualquer outra sensação da mesma espécie. Naturalmente por ser minha. Naturalmente também por ser a primeira.
~ Machado de Assis
That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from the unconscious - from behind a locked door inside of our brain - but just because something is outside of awareness doesn't mean it's outside of control.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
remember going to Roseto for the first time, and you'd see
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body?
order for all your work, my friend: First
~ Andrew Murray
ALPHA  (A'LPHA)   n.s.The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to our A; therefore used to signify the first. I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.BibleRevelat.
~ Samuel Johnson
Maybe not, she said as we came to the car. But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.
~ Sarah Dessen
That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.
~ Sarah Dessen
But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is ialways the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.
~ Sarah Dessen
The first boy was always the hardest.
~ Sarah Dessen
As the starstruck Lafayette later described his first glimpse of Washington, It was impossible to mistake for a moment his majestic figure and deportment; nor was he less distinguished by the noble affability of his manner. What a sweet memory. Still, it does get on my nerves how easy it is for tall people to make a good first impression.
~ Sarah Vowell
Lest we forget at least an over the shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins - or which is which), the very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer.
~ Saul Alinsky
Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.
~ Saul Alinsky
If you want to make a good first impression, don't jokingly complain about the traffic on the way over. Try to work into the initial conversation some positive thoughts and images. Any positivity works. If your positivity has some visual imagery, that is even better. As the old saying goes, people won't always remember what you said, but they almost always remember how you made them feel.
~ Scott Adams
Should people who fall in love for the first time be made to wear badges? The answer, of course, is yes although I will not go into all the reasons. One or two will suffice. The wearing of a love badge might remind crusty and intolerant old fogies that they too were in love and it might make us all more tolerant of a disorder from which no one at all is immune.
~ John B. Keane
I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.
~ John Cameron