Quotes of: First-of-all Keyword

My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.

Eli Broad

I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be a chemical engineer until I went to the theatre for the first time at 16 and was blown away by it.

Richard Eyre

I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.

Siri Hustvedt

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

2010: Odyssey Two

Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.

Alanna: The First Adventure

Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift

Alanna: The First Adventure

First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing.

Afterworlds

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

Astonishing the Gods

Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

I Learn from Children

Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.

Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror 1801-1805

I can't see the end of the road, but here is the great part: Courage is not about knowing the path. It is about taking the first step.

Kisses from Katie

The Appreciation Meditation is the first step towards allowing and encouraging your inner nature to come to the surface of your mind.

The Restful Mind

For one last time, I said my goodbyes to the place I’d known as home for the last decade, and for the first time, I welcomed the unknown.

Submerged

It had been an embarrassing moment, like the one you get when you realize for the first time that you have what it takes to become an accountant.

The Scriptlings

I was speaking without thinking about it first, not hesitating, just saying what I felt first.

Since You've Been Gone

Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential!

The Master's Sacred Knowledge

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

My Name Is Memory

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

Meditations on First Philosophy

Anger gone as quick as it had come, now I just felt like an idiot. Not that this was the first time, and probably wouldn’t be the last. (Ray)

The Last Hour

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.

Last and First Men

Never be SARCASTIC. A clever remark might gain you a few laughs but the butt of your remarks will be offended and will remember you for it.

Leadership: The First Step