Quotes About First

Standing now astride two cultures, Olive had unwittingly made history: she was the first known tattooed white female in the United States.

ISO, FIRST TO GO! LAST TO KNOW!

In fact, the first experiments in refrigeration were not with fish or meat but with everyone's favorite luxury—butter.

As we seek to build kingdom churches, our priestly functions must be in proper order—the first commandment must take first place, and the second commandment must be second.

The peculiar circumstances arising out of the fall of the Syracusan tyranny seem to have produced the first practitioners of the art of rhetorical

For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements. Plainly therefore in the science of Nature, (15) as in other branches of study, our first task will be to try to determine what relates to its principles.

for to perceive an evil at its very first approach is not the lot of every one, but of the politician.

The trouble with cliché's, some philosopher remarked, probably with a yawn, is that they are so boringly true. But love at first sight is never boring.

And history could never take from him the privilege of being the first of all mankind to gaze upon the works of an alien civilization.

All that we do know is this: you, Alvin, alone of the human race, have never lived before. In literal truth, you are the first child to be born on Earth for at least ten million years.

By all means. The first three sensible words that you have uttered since you entered this room, Watson

it was a joyful sight, to see the first twistings and turnings of the demon caught

I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.

Yet all this while the power of thought, the pull of conscience, were feeble beside Alverna's youth. It was his first love; the first time in his life that he had been roused to through away caution and dignity.

All I knew now was that I was no longer inspired to be the warrior. I had no more "war" in me. It was over. All I wanted was to end all battles and find deep inner peace for the first time in my life.

[T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.

My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.

The first thing we noticed was how flamboyant [Dalton] Trumbo was in real life.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruitOf that forbidden tree whose mortal tasteBrought death into the world, and all our woe,With loss of Eden.

And seek first in all you do to make known His kingship over your life.

Questions of ultimate ends do not admit of proof, in the ordinary acceptation of the term. To be incapable of proof by reasoning is common to all first principles; to the first premises of our knowledge, as well as to those of our conduct.

Purdue drilled its reps on two selling points. One, OxyContin was the first narcotic that wouldn't hook patients. And two, fewer than 1 percent of pain-management patients get addicted anyway.