First Quotes

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.

Yeah, I mean I've definitely had a bunch of action scripts sent to me, but again I'm a stickler for directors. If it's like an action flick with a great director then it's like 'Oh let's look at this thing,' but if it's just like a shoot-em'-up with a first time director. I don't know if that's the trajectory I want to take with what I'm doing.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

I met Kevin when I was 19, at a Second City workshop. We were paired up together in the first class I went to. By the end of the class we formed our improv group, and over the next three years we performed leading up to the formation of The Kids in the Hall.

What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down.

I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.

Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.

I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.

The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

You know, I've done this show for six years, and this could be the first time that I had a person that actually got no points, and I think it's a damn fine way to go out. I thought I was a loser until you walked up here; you made me feel like a man.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.