All Quotes

The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
‐‐ John Jakes

The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.
‐‐ David Copperfield

The first trillionaire in the world will be the person who mines asteroids.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.
‐‐ Billy Campbell

The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
‐‐ Buffalo Bill

The first true antibiotic to be derived from a culture of an actinomyces was isolated in our department in 1940. The organism, Actinomyces antibioticus, yielded a substance which was designated as actinomycin. It was soon crystallized, and its chemical and biological properties were established.
‐‐ Selman Waksman

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.
‐‐ Hugh Shelton

The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop.
‐‐ Joel Hodgson

The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
‐‐ Natalie Babbitt

The first two crusades brought the flower of European chivalry to Constantinople and restored that spiritual union between Eastern and Western Christendom that had been interrupted by the great schism of the Greek and Roman Churches.
‐‐ Joseph Jacobs

The first two lessons, which we learned early in our efforts to be good member missionaries, have made sharing the Gospel much easier: We simply can't predict who will or won't be interested in the Gospel, and building a friendship is not a prerequisite to inviting people to learn about the Gospel.
‐‐ Clayton Christensen

The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights.
‐‐ Mark Kelly

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
‐‐ M. Night Shyamalan

The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.
‐‐ Mackenzie Davis

The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
‐‐ Parker Stevenson

The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.
‐‐ Douglas Hurd

The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
‐‐ Danger Mouse

The first two years I was on 'MADtv' were really, really fun. We always thought it was 'Saturday Night Live's very nice, slightly asthmatic, shorter cousin.
‐‐ Ike Barinholtz

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.
‐‐ Jean Piaget

The first unquestionable proofs of the transformation of elements into different chemical elements have been provided by the study of the phenomena of radioactivity.
‐‐ Frederic Joliot-Curie

The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
‐‐ Edmund White

The first Victoria's Secret model I ever met was Adriana Lima, and she was so nice to me. She was very generous and very nurturing. She made sure people talked to me!
‐‐ Lily Aldridge

The first video I ever made, announcing 'Crash the Super Bowl,' I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It was awful.
‐‐ Kina Grannis

The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

The first videos I uploaded on my own personal channel were videos of dogs.
‐‐ Michelle Phan

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

The first voice they hear is mine, the first touch they feel is mine, the first human face they see is mine. They just think I'm a strange tiger who walks on two legs.
‐‐ Roy Horn

The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons involved in traversing the galaxy are not daunting to immortal beings. By the end of the third millennium, travel to other stars could be technically feasible. But would there be sufficient motive?
‐‐ Martin Rees

The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.
‐‐ Peter Arnett

The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914.
‐‐ George William Norris

The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
‐‐ Padmasree Warrior

The first wealth is health.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
‐‐ Hank Sauer

The first weekend after the attacks of September 11, George W. Bush had a meeting at Camp David with his top advisors, including Colin Powell, the secretary of state. And there was a lively debate about Iraq policy, in which some people from the Pentagon were arguing that the war against terrorism should include Saddam Hussein.
‐‐ Elaine Sciolino

The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who claimed to be seeking to end poverty, disease and the slave trade.
‐‐ Andrew Mwenda

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.
‐‐ Gerald Vizenor

The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind.
‐‐ Chief Joseph

The first 'Wii Fit' games I tried were the slalom and ski jumping. I believe my spectacular failures here had more to do with the board resting on thick carpet than my shoddy balance.
‐‐ Jen Lancaster

The first willing concert I went to was Aerosmith when I was like 14.
‐‐ Edward Furlong

The first win came very quick, and I didn't know what it meant to win a major championship. I was a teenager, I was very young. I didn't know what I was doing. I just needed some time to get settled in on the tour.
‐‐ Inbee Park

The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines.
‐‐ Carole Bouquet

The First World became a popular phrase in about the 1970s and '80s. The World Bank then began categorizing countries in different categories, advanced to the least developed.
‐‐ Lee Kuan Yew

The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.
‐‐ Pele

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.
‐‐ Emily Greene Balch

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
‐‐ Adam Hochschild

The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war.
‐‐ Michael Gove

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
‐‐ Carl Clinton Van Doren