Firsts Quotes

If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you’re really saying what you need to say in that.

Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.

The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man looks for injustice first of all in himself.

The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

By definition a sequel can’t be original. So you’ve got to figure out what worked the first time around.

You don’t have to get it right the first time.

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn’t have religion

Your first problem is relying on someone else’s word. Always depend on yourself. No one will work as hard for you as you will.

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.