Be The First Quotes

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Living, Step, Toward

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.
Ayrton Senna

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.
Jesus Christ

Among, Sin, Stone

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
Janis Joplin

Girl, Might, Guess

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly Parton

Woman, Fire, Put

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
Jackie Chan

Wanted, Next, Bruce

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.
Hugo Chavez

Government, Today, Moral

It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
Aeschylus

Bring, News, Ill

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.
Simon Mainwaring

Morning, Night, Last

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.
Morgan Freeman

Best, Food, Weather

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
Barbara Bush

Society, Dream, Winner

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
Ben Affleck

Person, Dead, Call

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.
Paul Ryan

History, Children, American

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
Bobby Knight

Humor, Time, Sense

This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.
Marco Rubio

History, Society, Today

My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.
Shia LaBeouf

Money, Fun, Before

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
Sally Ride

Woman, Special, American

I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.
Jessica Lange

Time, Home, Thinking

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Spinoza

Wish, Proud, Taken

When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number.
Kinky Friedman

Number, Telephone, Governor

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson

Love, Success, Time

The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
Sally Ride

Woman, American, Fact

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.
Mark Zuckerberg

Good, Society, Done

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.
Maria Sharapova

Age, Nature, Young

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
Norman Douglas

Duty, Distrust, Authority

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
David Deutsch

Nature, Technology, Between

Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.
Veronica Franco

Women, Truth, Death

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.
Ray Manzarek

Good, Poor, Player

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Happiness, Happy, Remember

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.
Jean Kerr

Person, Baby, Noticed

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