First Quotes

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

I can't remember what my first script was.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.

Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard.

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution, not to just say we're going to trim around the edges, not to say that we will try to simplify a little of this and a little of that. The problem is, replace the tax code, so we can establish tax fairness for everybody.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.

If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

First things first, second things never.

And, actually it was interesting because I had done a lot of traveling in the United States and Canada and Mexico on my motorcycle; and I was really, it was the first time I had really gotten out of the Minnesota area to speak of.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.

I have cervical cancer. I'm what they call a DES baby... I have been cancer free for 7 years now... I had it the first time when I was 19 and then it came back a few years later after I went through treatment.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.