Be The First Quotes

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

My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.'
Lee Westwood

Dad, Said, Wanted

Well, I never got into the young adult headspace. With 'Twilight,' they are pretty adult themes, aside from maybe the first one, but even that. They're very adult themes, actually, particularly as the characters age. I never wrote for young adults. I wrote for myself, as an audience.
Melissa Rosenberg

Age, Pretty, Young

I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.
Sasha Cohen

Older, Grow, Style

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
Werner Herzog

Ego, Ambition, Vision

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.
Cristiano Ronaldo

Best, Happy, Team

I'm here to break boundaries, man. That's all. I'm here to be the first so that the people after me don't have to think twice about expressing themselves and being free.
ASAP Rocky

After, Free, Here

All in all it was a smooth race, the car was very well balanced. I'm very proud to be the first winner here in India.
Sebastian Vettel

Car, Proud, Here

I'm very proud to be the first winner of the Indian Grand Prix, but then on the other hand we recently lost two of our mates. I didn't know Dan Wheldon, but he was big in motorsport, and then this year I got to know Marco Simoncelli, so our thoughts are with them at the moment.
Sebastian Vettel

Lost, Two, Thoughts

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
Kamala Harris

Mother, Saying, May

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.
Brian May

Guitar, Put, Big

I'd love to be the first one to say this, but it automatically turns into - we all have those responsibilities that we ignore because we don't feel like they're ours.
Rosario Dawson

Love, Ignore, Ours

All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero.
Joseph Rotblat

Down, Open, Nuclear

The Madden NFL franchise holds a special place in popular culture and the cover is a coveted position for players all over the league. I'm honored to be the first cover athlete chosen by Madden NFL fans and it's a great way to cap off an amazing year for the Saints and the city of New Orleans.
Drew Brees

Great, Amazing, Special

I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.
Alberto Gonzales

Mistakes, Perfect, Admit

If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off than we are right now, you know? But you've got to be the first one to do it. So I figured that Led Zeppelin or the Stones were going to do it unless we just got on to it. So I got cracking with the guys from Apple.
Dhani Harrison

Design, Person, Off

I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well.
Nik Wallenda

Person, Working, Start

I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.
Holly Near

Struggle, Keep, Silver

I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
Barbara Mikulski

United, Ambassador

Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.
Freddy Fender

Heaven, Hopefully, Hillbilly

I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.
Claire McCaskill

Time, Good, Woman

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.
William Bartram

Food, Seems, Animal

When we finish this tour we are going to begin writing and go into the studio to hopefully have a brand new Foreigner album out in early spring next year. This will be the first Foreigner album out in about ten years.
Lou Gramm

Writing, Spring, Year

I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.
Lauren Hutton

Woman, Model, Becomes

Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.
Pedro Martinez

Tell, Last, Used

Going to the Olympics as a Maasai I want to make them proud because, after the warm welcome they gave me when I went back and being their leader, I want to also be the warrior in the Olympics. That will be something good because that will be the first Olympic gold medal for the Maasai.
David Rudisha

Good, After, Leader

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.
Matt Drudge

Nothing, Story, Present

I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever coached against his son. He beat me for 30 minutes the first time and 59 and a half minutes the second time.
Don Shula

Time, Father, Son

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.
Spike Jonze

Love, Wrong, Opinion

I'll be the first one to admit my first couple of years I was pretty hard on the refs.
Sidney Crosby

Hard, Pretty, Couple

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