First Thing Quotes

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
Mark Twain

Best, Morning, Job

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
Robert Frost

Him, Hands, Among

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
Groucho Marx

Life, Time, Mind

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Work, Union, Join

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
Eric Schmidt

Humanity, Understand, Internet

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
Elizabeth Taylor

Mother, Eyes, After

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
Niels Bohr

Getting, Physics, Anybody

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
Stephen King

God, Powerful, Awesome

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.
Donald Trump

Boss, Types, Secretary

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
Andy Rooney

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself.
Niklas Zennstrom

Home, Morning, Yourself

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.
Ovid

Morning, Before, Times

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Samuel Johnson

Calamity, Remembered, Escaped

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
Marshall McLuhan

Education, Between, Anyone

Love is so confusing - you tell a girl she looks great and what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!
Robert Orben

Love, Great, Girl

On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.
Josh McDowell

Morning, Sunday, Two

The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.
Josh McDowell

Rather, Minds, Empty

In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.
Alfred A. Montapert

Life, Mind, Goal

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Faith, Hope, Pack

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Learn, Child, Endure

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
Michael J. Fox

Acting, Wanted, Hockey

The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to go to sleep.
Susan Orlean

Morning, Tired, Sleep

I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me.
Kiefer Sutherland

Love, School, Fun

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.
Jamie Zawinski

Give, Works, Hacker

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
Wendell Phillips

Debt, Corrupt, Disease

When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.
Gordon Ramsay

Work, Down, Before

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
Fred Allen

Paris, Strikes, Taxi

The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
Karl Lagerfeld

I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better here than anywhere else. It's better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it.
Curtis Stone

Love, Home, Travel

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.
Henry Louis Gates

Black, Revolution, Poverty

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