There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
You can’t judge a book by its cover until you open up and read it. There are going be a million stories out there, true or not true. I say get to know me first before you judge me.
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Time flies. It seems like just yesterday I was playing my first game against Ireland, when I came off the bench, full of energy and flying into tackles, even though I couldn’t tackle back then.
People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a rhetorical device. When we talk about ourselves as a people and as a culture, we talk about black history, black culture, black music. That’s the rhetorical position we occupy.
At my core, the glass isn’t half-empty – it’s not even what I ordered in the first place.
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.
The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.
Whatever I like, even after a long time, I still like it. And I reminisce about the moment when I first heard it. That’s what I love. Just remembering those moments.
When I first started wearing wigs, I didn’t know you had to anchor them down with bobby pins. I walked out during a windy day and my wig blew off and got stuck to a branch. I was walking while my wig was hanging! If that’s not the most embarrassing thing… but you have to use bobby pins.
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.
No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn’t take the first pill that comes along.
My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.
I remember when I was about 18, Sean Penn made a bet with me. He had just directed his first movie, and he’s like, ‘By the time you’re 30, I will bet you $500 that you’ll be sick of acting.’ I’m still waiting to collect, because I’m not.
Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.
When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
‘The bigtime for you is just around the corner.’ They told me that first in 1952 – boy, it’s been a long corner. If I don’t hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I’m gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.
An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
At the start of my two years at Juventus, I had big plans for the club, but it turned out that the Intertoto Cup was the only medal in my desk drawer when finally they told me to pack my bags. We started the first season really well, and Conte was so important for me.
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren’t laughing, it’s not comedy. It’s as simple as that.
Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.
My father, Dennis Popham, was a very handsome, talented artist, and as my mother always reminds me, ‘someone who had wonderful style.’ He was half Samoan-German, half New Zealander, and their first date was to a Fleetwood Mac concert, which I love the thought of.
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That’s the ‘halo effect.’ Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.
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.
I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.
The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State.
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
I personally believe that if you love someone, and you get your heart broken, and you can learn to love someone else just as deeply as the first, then that is the greatest lesson we can learn on this planet.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.
My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys.
Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
