All Quotes

The first sign builders are on their way is when - hey, presto! - a skip appears outside your house.
‐‐ Craig Brown

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
‐‐ Georges Bernanos

The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.
‐‐ Jeff Goodell

The first sign that I'd been unknowingly affected by cooking shows occurred on a Sunday morning when I realized I was talking to myself. I'd been making toast. 'First, we cut our bread,' I whispered. 'Do you know why?' I stopped what I was doing and looked up. 'Let me tell you why.'
‐‐ Bill Buford

The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
‐‐ Randy Houser

The first six years of a child's life, it is like a tape recorder is on. Everything it sees, smells, touches, experiences in any way, whatever it hears, is being downloaded into the brain before the consciousness of the child is even made apparent.
‐‐ Bruce Lipton

The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.
‐‐ Kenny Rogers

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
‐‐ Andy Goldsworthy

The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat - 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
‐‐ Fetty Wap

The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.
‐‐ Tom Odell

The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
‐‐ Babyface

The first song I wrote was called 'You,' and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist.
‐‐ Courtney Barnett

The first song is called 'London.' It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime.
‐‐ Neil Tennant

The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother.
‐‐ Celine Dion

The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.
‐‐ Kat Edmonson

The first song that made me interested in music was 'Oh, Pretty Woman' by Roy Orbison. It was the guitar intro, that riff, that I really liked and made me listen in a different way.
‐‐ Geddy Lee

The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.
‐‐ Sabrina Carpenter

The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God.
‐‐ Katy Perry

The first sort of big present I remember getting from Santa Claus was quite a small telescope that I remember going into our backyard with my parents and figuring out how to assemble, and staring at the night sky, just for hours, with both of my parents.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

The first sport I played was baseball. I remember being on the Little League team and someone pitching the ball to me for the first time. I was ready to no longer hit the ball off the tee, and an adult pitched it to me underhand.
‐‐ Ashton Eaton

The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays.
‐‐ John Hersey

The first stage I preformed on were the stairs to the hallway in the living room. There was a really nice platform, and when people were sitting in the living room, it was kind of an elevated platform and we would put on shows and skits.
‐‐ Sean Astin

The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.
‐‐ Chris Anderson

The first 'Star Wars' film was enormously important. I grew up right smack-bang in the sweet spot of all of those. It's true cinema magic. It's fair to say that, as a kid, I would have been very happy to be Han Solo, and I would have been happy to have gone out with Princess Leia.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

The first 'Star Wars' movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America. But internationally, it was also a big deal.
‐‐ Ben Affleck

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The first step in community organization is community disorganization.
‐‐ Saul Alinsky

The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.
‐‐ Roy H. Williams

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

The first step in good reporting is good snooping.
‐‐ Matt Drudge

The first step in Occultism is the study of the invisible Worlds. These Worlds are invisible to the majority of people because of the dormancy of the finer and higher senses whereby they may be perceived, in the same way that the Physical World about us is perceived through the physical senses.
‐‐ Max Heindel

The first step in reforming appetite is going from processed food to real food. Then, if you can afford organic or grass-fed, fantastic. But the first step is moving from processed industrial food to the real thing.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
‐‐ Albert Schweitzer

The first step into justice begins with the politicians. You have to demand from yourself what you demand from people.
‐‐ Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
‐‐ Halle Berry

The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.
‐‐ Thaksin Shinawatra

The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active - in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what.
‐‐ Gary Zukav

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
‐‐ Voltaire

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
‐‐ Corrie Ten Boom

The first step... shall be to lose the way.
‐‐ Galway Kinnell

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.
‐‐ Terry Goodkind

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
‐‐ Ben Stein

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
‐‐ Ted Rall

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
‐‐ Nathaniel Branden

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
‐‐ Thomas Merton

The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the commercials are there to help sell things. And that TV shows are there to sell commercials, and so on.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
‐‐ Mark Caine