All Quotes

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
‐‐ John Updike

The first breath of air of Africa - it felt like you were in another continent - you were, you were - and it was different.
‐‐ Romeo Dallaire

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.
‐‐ Bernadette Peters

The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.'
‐‐ Bebe Neuwirth

The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
‐‐ Jack Kilby

The first campaign that I recall was with Kate Moss and Marky Mark. Probably the most iconic jeans ad ever.
‐‐ Kendall Jenner

The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.
‐‐ Sonia Sotomayor

The first case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States has caused some to call on the United States to ban travel for anyone from the countries in West Africa facing the worst of the Ebola epidemic. That response is understandable. It's only human to want to protect ourselves and our families.
‐‐ Tom Frieden

The first casualty when war comes is truth.
‐‐ Hiram Johnson

The first cause of waste is probably even buried in our DNA. Human beings have a need for maintaining consistency of the apperceptive mass. What does that mean? What it means is, for every perception we have, it needs to tally with the one like it before, or we don't have continuity, and we become a little bit disoriented.
‐‐ Dan Phillips

The first CD I had was 'Definitely Maybe' by Oasis, and I had a tape of' 'Parklife' by Blur when I was nine.
‐‐ Iwan Rheon

The first CD that I ever bought was 'Britney Spears.' It was at a 7-Eleven and I was like, 'Can I get this?' It was literally her EP and I picked it up and, of course, I fell in love with her. It was an early crush for me.
‐‐ Joe Jonas

The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.
‐‐ Tom G. Palmer

The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.
‐‐ Christopher Lee

The first choice for me is what's going to make me stretch out in my craft?
‐‐ Kim Fields

The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.
‐‐ Dave Brubeck

The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction.
‐‐ Mark Cuban

The first clothing line I had was called Very Rue. Then we changed the name and moved to QVC, and the name became A Touch of Rue.
‐‐ Rue McClanahan

The first coat I ever bought is in a plastic bag in about five pieces. It's by Sonia Rykiel. I can't wear it anymore, but I still like it.
‐‐ Suki Waterhouse

The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.
‐‐ Harold Ramis

The first comic book I ever bought, I was in third grade. It was 'Avengers,' I think, #240. I grew up in Kansas City. And I walked into a 7-11. I had seen, like, 'The Hulk' TV series. I knew about comic book heroes. I knew about it, but I hadn't actually had a physical comic in my hands until that time. And it was a big deal for me.
‐‐ David Dastmalchian

The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth was surrounded by all of these chains. I remember the cover; I got it at a birthday party.
‐‐ Jonathan Hickman

The first comic I can remember ever reading was a 'Fantastic Four' issue that my dad bought out of the drugstore once. The thing that struck me about it was that the ending wasn't an ending. It was essentially a cliffhanger. It was the first time I had ever read anything like that, where you read a book, but the book isn't the book.
‐‐ Charles Soule

The first commercial routers came out about 1986, and services came in 1987.
‐‐ Vint Cerf

The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
‐‐ Jack Dorsey

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
‐‐ Philip Johnson

The first concert I ever saw was Roy Orbison.
‐‐ Daniel A. D'Aniello

The first concert I ever went to was the Bee Gees.
‐‐ Rob Huebel

The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.
‐‐ Dar Williams

The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
‐‐ Hannah Simone

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
‐‐ Jose Bergamin

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
‐‐ John Ruskin

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.
‐‐ Arthur Henderson

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
‐‐ Rudyard Kipling

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.
‐‐ Derek Bok

The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.
‐‐ Carol Vorderman

The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to.
‐‐ Emilio Estevez

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.
‐‐ Steve Irwin

The first cut is the deepest.
‐‐ Rod Stewart

The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.
‐‐ Kailash Satyarthi

The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince.
‐‐ Kyle Abraham

The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal.
‐‐ John Sexton

The first day back to school, you never want to wear your best outfit. You're setting the bar too high for yourself! Then the rest of the school year, you'll feel so much pressure! Wear something cute, but save your best outfit for a day when no one expects it.
‐‐ Bethany Mota

The first day I arrived, they told me to go home and get rid of that cold.
‐‐ June Allyson

The first day I start shooting, I start having a recurring nightmare that every single night that I am lying in bed, and there is a film crew surrounding the bed, waiting for me to tell them what to do, and I don't quite know what movie I am supposed to be making.
‐‐ Peter Jackson