Firsts Quotes - Page 40

• For the first time in over a decade, your state government is doing what you do every day at home-spending what it takes in and saving for a rainy day.

  Tate Reeves

  Home, Rainy Day, Government

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• It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.

  Mac Davis

  Redneck, Records

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• First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.

  Mac Davis

  Kids, Redneck, Texas

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• The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.

  Diana Krall

  Song, Redneck, Together

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• That's right. I'm scared to death. You said it's your first time, feeling chest pain, and nausea. Well it's not mine. I've felt that before, and I know how crazy hot it boils, and how dangerous it is. And I know myself. I'm a Yang Eun-nem-bi, so I boil faster, and hotter, than everyone else.

  Cheon Eunbi

  Pain, Crazy, Drama

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• Studying is also important, but we must become humans first.

  Lee Jin-wook

  Drama, Important, Study

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• Every time I see you with sunbae, I always feel unhappy. This time the same thing happened. Why is it not me but another woman? This is not the first, but the second time. I'm always like this. Just like a fool.

  Kim A-joong

  Drama, Unhappy, Fool

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• I won't ask you if you ever received flowers from a man before. But it was my first, gifting flowers to a woman.

  Sung Hoon

  Drama, Flower, Men

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• The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

  William O. Douglas

  Maturity, People, Common Sense

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• The ginkgo tree is from the era of dinosaurs, but while the dinosaur has been extinguished, the modern ginkgo has not changed. After the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the ginkgo was the first tree that came up. It's amazing.

  Koji Nakanishi

  Change, Science, Tree

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• Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good.

  Immanuel Kant

  Practice, Done, Charity

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• Like the great white pines whose roots grow shallow under the forest floor, they are the first to fall in a storm; so is society whose family values are built on a shallow foundation, are the first to crumble at the first sign of trouble.

  Jean Charest

  Family, Fall, Roots

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• Sir, The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of the eighth magnitude, which was not recorded in the excellent map designed by Dr. Bremiker, containing the twenty-first hour of the collection published by the Royal Academy of Berlin. The observation of the succeeding day showed it to be the Planet of which we were in quest.

  Johann Gottfried Galle

  Stars, Science, Twenties

  "The Cambridge Planetary Handbook". Book by Michael E. Bakich, 2000.

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• The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever experienced during my scientific career.

  Georgios Papanikolaou

  Cancer, Science, Cells

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• Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.

  Peter Debye

  Science, Physics, Investigation

  Inaugural lecture for his professorship of mathematical physics at the University of Utrecht, 1913.

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• Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of creatures. Nature is not a thing, because this thing would be everything. Nature is not a creature, because this creature would be God. But one can consider it as an immense vital power, which encompasses all, which animates all, and which, subordinated to the power of the first Being, has begun to act only by his order, and still acts only by his concourse or consent ... Time, space and matter are its means, the universe its object, motion and life its goal.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  God, Nature, Mean

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• Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Feeling Alone, Feelings, First Impression

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• Color is the first revelation of the world.

  Helio Oiticica

  Color, World, Revelations

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• 'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this instruction on airplanes as an appropriate metaphor for feminist mothering. Mothers, empowered, are able to better care for and protect their children

  Andrea O'Reilly

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

  Robert Gilfillan

  Happiness, Pain, Heart

  Robert Gilfillan, William Anderson (1851). “Poems and Songs: With Memoir of the Author, and Appendix of His Latest Pieces”, p.163

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• If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Humanity, Patriotism

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• ...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But even so, very much hard work remains to be done and one needs not only great perspicacity but often a degree of good fortune.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Hard Work, Science, Luck

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• The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home.

  Lotte Hass

  Home, Men, Greed

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• However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.

  Peter Quennell

  Memories, Lasts, Action

  Peter Quennell (1971). “Singular Preference: Portraits and Essays”

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• Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.

  John Pugsley

  Government, Law, Opposites

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