Top First Quotes
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
Fred Allen
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
Victor Hugo
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
Prince Charles
They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.
Jack Cade
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When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway.
Holly Marie Combs 
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Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Terry Pratchett
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Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.
Robert Morgan
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I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
Maya Lin
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Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.
Louis Agassiz
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In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Fay Weldon
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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha
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When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
Annie Leibovitz
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My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964.
Hasil Adkins
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