Quotes About First

No matter what, the living came first.

The first one, his first sight of a dead body. That had changed everything. A fall from innocence, and the start of a lifelong fascination with violent crime.

Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try and conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday. I

The first pancake is why you have a dog, so you have someone to give it to who appreciate it.

Benno blushed violently. "I am not a murderer!" he protested. "No one is, until he commits his first crime," William said philosophically.

Secretum finis Africae manus supra idolum age primum et septimum de quatuor.

not everything can be a symbol. A symbol has to be textually produced; it requires a specific semiotic strategy. [...] . A symbolic strategy can produce aesthetic enjoyment, but it is first of all semiotic machinery.

simon-pure American Nationalism, America First, America for Americans, and let us

You always remember the first time. Isn't that what they say about sex? How much more true it is of murder.

It's as awkward as things can get. But I hear grace can feel that way at first.

I have never been in love before," Julian said. "You're my first-and you'll be my only.

My first kiss and I'm comatose. Great.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.

All I know is that I love you. And for the first time, that's good enough.

I'm not sure you're quite sensible of the honor I'm doing you," Jace said. "you'll be the first mundane who has ever been inside the Institute." "Probably the smell keeps the rest of them away.

For so many years she had wondered what her first kiss would be like - if he would be handsome, if he would love her, if he would be kind. She had never imagined that the kiss would be so brief and desperate and wild. Or that it would taste of holy water. Holy water and blood.

September had never been betrayed before. She did not even know what to call the feeling in her chest, so bitter and sour. Poor child. There is always a first time, and it is never the last time.

That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.

He wanted to get down his reactions to that painting, exactly what he'd noticed and his response to it. You never get a second chance to have a first impression.

to preserve the memory of that very first morning as, in its pristine state, unwrinkled by projection, one preserves the negative of a film.

My best moment in the league came when I scored my first bucket. Against Cleveland. I stole the ball and made a layup. I thought, If I never play another game again, it'll be in the record. Two points. Gilbert Arenas was in the NBA.

Anyone who claims that weapons like semi-automatics are so modern and unique that the Second Amendment doesn't apply to them would also have to believe that the First Amendment protects only writing done with quill pens on parchment paper, since those were the norm back then. How could we expect the Founders to have ever imagined the world we live in today?