Firsts Quotes - Page 28

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

  Sally Ride

  Bad Ass, Space, Expectations

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• If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Helping Others, Remember You, Remembers You

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• The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.

  Charles William Eliot

  Helping Others, Men, Ties Of Love

  Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

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• The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.

  Margot Asquith

  Confused, Taken, Greatness

  Margot Asquith (1963). “Autobiography”

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• The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.

  Hugh Prather

  Letting Go, Steps, Looks

  Hugh Prather (2000). “The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul”, p.7, Conari Press

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• Love is a choice. Total forgiveness is a choice. It is not a feeling-at least at first-but is rather an act of the will. It is the choice to tear up the record of wrongs we have been keeping.

  R. T. Kendall

  Love Is, Choices, Feelings

  R.T. Kendall (2010). “Total Forgiveness: When Everything in You Wants to Hold a Grudge, Point a Finger, and Remember the Pain—God Wants You to Lay it All Aside”, p.33, Charisma Media

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• Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is the first step in dealing with them. We can meet the resource problems of the world - water, food, minerals, farmlands, forests, overpopulation, pollution - if we tackle them with courage and foresight.

  Jimmy Carter

  Future, Mean, Sacrifice

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Jimmy Carter”

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• Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take a lesson from living things around us and bring our values and actions in line with ecological necessity. But we must first realize that ecological and social and economic issues are all deeply intertwined. There can be no solution to one without a solution to the others.

  Jean-Michel Cousteau

  Future, Self, Issues

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• Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wise, Kings, Sleep

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• The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and stepfather; they were like, If you are going to do this, we'd rather you did this with us.

  Matt Damon

  Mother, Weed, Home

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• We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well. We have our own Third World here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that.

  Martin Sheen

  War, Fighting, Thinking

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• The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Evil, Poverty, Crime

  Major Barbara (1907) preface

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• A study says owning a dog makes you 10 years younger. My first thought was to rescue two more, but I don't want to go through menopause again.

  Joan Rivers

  Dog, Years, Two

  FaceBook post by Joan Rivers from Aug 06, 2014

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• There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

  Chris Brown

  Goodbye, Hate, Moving

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• I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, and the second, 'Bye Bye Boy', reached the Top 20.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Goodbye, Baby, Boys

  "My CV: Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2005.

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• It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Expression, Intellectual

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of the curves of the winds which as they strike against these projections, being forced to preserve their first impetus bend their straight course towards the sky with divers revolutions, at the beginning of which the birds come to a stop with their wings open, receiving underneath themselves the continual buffetings of the reflex courses of the winds.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Ocean, Mean, Science

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• Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Rain, Food, Clouds

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

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• The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Rain, Lakes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.560, Delphi Classics

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• Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and bigger creatures, Full-formed, arose from the new young earth and sky. The breed, for instance, of the dappled birds Shucked off their eggshells in the springtime, as Crickets in summer will slip their slight cocoons All by themselves, and search for food and life. Earth gave you, then, the first of mortal kinds, For all the fields were soaked with warmth and moisture.

  Lucretius

  Life, Summer, Spring

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Spring, Flower, Character

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1993). “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other Stories”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions

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• No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

  Marya Mannes

  Faith, Christian, Men

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• It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

  Jonathan Swift

  Class, Titles, Maxims

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.16, Delphi Classics

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• Poor body, time and the long years were the first tailors to teach you the merciless use of clothes. Though some scold today because you are too much seen, to my mind, you are not seen fully enough or often enough when you are beautiful.

  Henry Beston

  Beautiful, Fashion, Clothes

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• ... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This does not mean just to amuse him and let him do what he likes. But it does mean that we have to adjust our minds to doing a work of collaboration with nature, to being obedient to one of her laws, the law which decrees that development comes from environmental experience.

  Maria Montessori

  Mean, Independent, Law

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