Top 1200 First Thing Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

When peaceful reunification comes, the first thing I want to do is to take my 90-year-old mother and go to her home town.

I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.

The first thing [Donald Trump] does on January 20th is take an oath to defend and adhere to the Constitution of the United States.

I'm certainly not a practicing Jew. I would never claim, 'I'm Jewish.' That's not the first and foremost thing in my mind, as far as who I am as a person.

I still miss my first car. Not a glamorous ride, but I must've put 60,000 miles in road trips on that thing.

Pope John Paul II himself was kind of a rather independent, creative man. I remember being told by somebody who worked very close with him in preparation for his first visit to the United States in 1979, he studied our normative documents, Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, the Constitution. And he was amazed. He called his priests first thing in the morning and he said, he said, I thought America was a pagan country.

I think the one thing I would point to as a primary reason, basically, is that I was a gigantic ass, ... It's the first time I got dumped in my life.

The first thing that comes to the mind when you are touring South Africa is bouncy wickets. But that is no surety of what kind of pitch you would get in the game.

In companies, there are three activities that should be labeled better. First there is the "CORE" which is the thing the company does that its customers pay it to do.

1958 was my first year as a defensive backfield coach at Florida State. I remember one thing about that game: It was so cold. It was freezing.

The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.

It just so happened that J.C.[Chandor] was a first-time feature director, and his script was exactly the kind of thing we were looking for.

I always do my training session first thing in the morning. After that, I'll take four eggs for breakfast, along with spinach and avocado.

That's the beautiful thing about being a father for the first time; it has really made me get my concentration levels in check.

Obviously, there's more to aesthetic appearance than just race, but that is going to be the first thing that someone notices when they look at a picture.

Really dig into projects people have worked on and call references; that is another thing that first time founders like to skip.

I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.

A lot of the time, when people meet someone in a wheelchair, or with some disability, it's the first thing they notice, but they don't know how to react.

I act, but I'm not necessarily an actor. Acting is just the first thing people see when they look at me. So I'd like to do more things.

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.

Every company that comes into the office for appropriations, the first thing I ask is how many jobs are you going to bring to the 5th District that are not already there.

Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just waiting.

Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.

Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth.

Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.

First of all, let's get one thing straight: fitness and exercise aren't the same thing. You can exercise without getting fit, but you can't get fit without exercise.

Exercising first thing in the morning ensures that you'll have the time for it, and it improves your self-control and energy levels all day long.

Going to Columbia, the first thing I learned was 'safe space.' Every problem, they explained us, is because of white men.

[Donald] Trump, whether he designed it or not, happens to be the first thing in the news on UK soil the day after the Brexit vote.

At first glance, that might seem a little silly: why put so much stress on a simple thing? But that's precisely the point.

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.

The first hit in a game is the thing that knocks everything out; whether you're nervous, you're over-thinking stuff, it definitely helps.

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

It is a blessing. When I first got wind of [Chris Rivers] taking the rap thing serious and wanting to make a career out of it.

The first thing that strikes a person when it comes to Southern film industries is the hard work, professionalism and the punctuality that people religiously adhere to.

I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case of the movies, it's the same thing.

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.

First and foremost, praying about things and having the good Lord as a part of my life is a huge grounding thing for me.

The first thing we need to understand when we think about globalization is that it has benefited an enormous number of people who are not part of the global elite.

When the first album came out and I heard 'Do It Again' on the radio, that was the greatest thing that had ever happened. After that, it was all downhill.

It's always nice working with friends. And if you have a director that you've worked with before, you don't have to go through that first learning thing. There's an element of trust there.

Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.

When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

The first time I had sex, I didn't know what I was doing. It was a relief when the whole thing was over after just 45 minutes.

A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.

The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.

Let me go back to a fundamental thing we all used to agree on: information is power. That's why we became journalists in the first place.

I never wanted to do just one thing. There's even other things in comedy that I want to do. For me, it's always been that I have to have the vision first.

The Wii U is pretty cool, and the thing that I'm most intrigued about it is it's the first gaming platform that actually is exploiting the second screen.

When a Satanist commits a wrong, he realizes that is it natural to make a mistake?and if he is truly sorry about what he has done, he will learn from it and take care not to do the same thing again. If he is not honestly sorry about what he has done, and knows he will do the same thing over and over, he has no business confessing and asking forgiveness in the first place.

The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.

The thing I try to preach the most when anybody asks me for advice - I say just be a good person first and foremost.

At first, being on the 'Bachelor' and seeing critical comments of myself, it would crush me, but now it's like a daily thing.

I'm not a huge party girl. When I turned 18, the thing I was most excited about was being able to vote for the first time.