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
Donald McKay 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Sebastian Bach 
Thomas Moore 
Alexander Dubcek 
Matthew Henson 
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I didn't have a clue where I was going on my first lap of practice.
Joey Dunlop 
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Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
Dennis Miller
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You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.
Jennifer Lopez
26% of people like this quote
About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
Sidney Altman
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Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.
Andrea Jung
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
Barbara Walters
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When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.
Penelope Cruz
18% of people like this quote
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
William James
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