Top 342 First Place Quotes

In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.
William Billings
I honestly don’t know where the high voice thing came from in the first place. Why do people have high voices? Emotional problems? What is that? It could easily be that. And now I’m getting more normal, and my voice is getting deeper.
Leslie Mann
The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood’s box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.
Michael Medved
While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place.
James Green Somerville
City are playing for first place in the Premier League, and that is what I want.
Edin Dzeko
A man will talk all day about the woman he wants, but should he come across that woman, he’ll do something stupid like cheat on her with the kind of woman he was trying to get away from in the first place. It’s not a lot of second chances granted in the realm of that.
Ne-Yo
The first time I ever got up on a stage, I did a comedy poem. I don’t know how I got there in the first place because I was very, very shy.
Lesley Nicol
But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won’t. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
Dan Rather
The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don’t jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.
Josh Homme
Teams struggle when they come to Stamford Bridge and, if we score one or two, everything seems to open up for us. We need to work hard to get into that position in the first place, but you can see what happens once we are ahead.
Michael Essien
I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it’s very nice and I’m very honored. It’s nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.
Tony Iommi
I'm very wary of heroes. I try not to make them in the

I’m very wary of heroes. I try not to make them in the first place, but there was a phrase Idris Elba spoke a few years back, where he said ‘It’s not about being the next Denzel, it’s about being the first you,’ and I really took that to heart.
Rege-Jean Page
I was doing Facebook comedy videos; then I moved over to Instagram, and then I hopped on Twitter. That is where I really was a master. That was the first place where I could go viral.
Lil Nas X
I love the notion of a dude sitting there with an untuned guitar tapping his foot and just singing his passion out; that’s what got me into music in the first place.
Ato Essandoh
I love sleeping and to inculcate the habit of early rising, my dad forced me to take up a sport. That was the only reason I started playing cricket in the first place. And thereafter it continued.
Mithali Raj
It was something I never expected to – I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.
Harper Lee
The reason I started drag in the first place is because I felt like I never really fit in, and I still don’t feel like I fit in to any of those places: the drag world, the circus world or the burlesque world. I’m kinda this combination of everything, so it made sense to me that I’d set out to do my own solo show.
Violet Chachki
To my mind, it is better to have regrets about the good aspects of your former marriage because you were able to work past some of your accumulated resentments than to have no regrets because you had to ratchet up the hostility to get out in the first place.
Stephanie Coontz
I’ve really been working on the emotional and internal issues that made me eat in the first place. It’s been a real journey.
Lisa Lampanelli
I do definitely believe that there is life away from this planet. I mean, we’ve kind of established that with the fact that we found bacteria on meteorites, and we’ve kind of used that to backtrack and show how this Earth, this planet, could have formed the ability to sustain life in the first place.
Corey Taylor
How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.
Will Durst
Quitting Facebook would be like partially erasing myself. Quitting Twitter would constitute further erasure. Pretty soon, I’d be invisible. I was never on Instagram or Tumblr, which I guess means I never completely existed in the first place.
Meghan Daum
I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
Agnes Macphail
When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That’s why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.
Wilson Greatbatch
I didn’t kill anyone that didn’t deserve killing in the first place.
Mickey Cohen
I’m quite surprised I ever got married in the first place.
Anne Reid
If I can’t connect emotionally with the music I’m making, there’s no point making it in the first place.
Sunny Ozell
I have always chosen to portray roles which inspired me and mostly that I enjoy it in the first place.
Radhika Pandit
I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O’Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
Patricia Ireland
Actually if you were to buy a bag of dried lentils it would cost you a couple of quid. Some people don’t have that to spend in the first place. And not everyone wants to eat lentils.
Jack Monroe
Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.
Olga Korbut
To truly rid the oceans of plastic, what we need to do is two things: One, we need to clean up the legacy pollution, the stuff that has been accumulating for decades and doesn’t go away by itself. But, two, we need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the oceans in the first place.
Boyan Slat
Also, General Zinni, who commanded central command, was very much opposed to the war in the first place, as I was. We were both quoted to that effect in February of 2003.
William Odom
I’m a big, big reader of pretty much everything that Chuck Colson has written. And I consulted with him when I was making some decisions about running for the Senate in the first place.
John Thune
At D.O.J., we don’t want to go after the corporate wrongdoers simply as an end unto itself; we want to decrease the amount of corporate wrongdoing that happens in the first place. We want to restore and help protect the corporate culture of responsibility.
Sally Yates
A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
Stanley Weiser
There’s a lot of talk about people being abused on Twitter, women being savagely insulted and degraded. I think, ‘Why get into that in the first place?’ If I jump into a garbage bin, I can’t complain that I’ve got rubbish all over me.
Steven Berkoff
They don’t call it the Italian Dream or the English Dream. In America, there is the American Dream. It was the first place to give people of any social background their dream. You can achieve anything.
Fabio Lanzoni
I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.
Marilyn vos Savant
When people talk about diversity and inclusion, sometimes there’s a bit of an eye-rolling mentality or ticking boxes. But I feel like that’s kind of necessary at times, because the playing fields are not level in the first place.
Ncuti Gatwa
Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.
Madeleine Albright
My thing is, for artists who are having success, being given an award shouldn’t be the thing that defines you in the first place.
Craig David
Look, when a song becomes a hit, it happens because of

Look, when a song becomes a hit, it happens because of its tune and melody, and not for the lyrics in the first place.
Gulzar