Firsts Quotes

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.

We’ll be getting rid of these people here… First, Mr. Samir Naga… Naga… Naga… Not gonna work here anymore, anyway.

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

True leaders are the first to admit that they don’t know everything and that they need help.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

It’s easier to stay in shape if you never let yourself get out of shape in the first place.

First the grub, then the morals.

First deal with your own tears; tomorrow do something about acid rain.

It doesn’t take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.