Be The First Quotes (page 6)

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• humanity
• saying
• society

Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to... Fyodor Dostoevsky

• tree
• serious
• climbing

A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer. Stephen Crane

• die
• willing
• willingly

fang will be the first to die James Patterson

• coffee
• good
• family

I used to think that kid might become a preacher. Now I don't see how he's going to stay out of prison. Nobody in this family ever went to prison for sex crimes. He'd be the first."Yes," says Jesus, "you never know about these things."He and Grandpa are drinking cups of coffee and eating ginger snaps. Grandpa says, "When are you planning to return to earth?"Soon as I finish this coffee," say Jesus. "Pretty good, isn't it. Garrison Keillor

• power
• powerful
• greatness

If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• history
• first
• histories

I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history. Josefina Vazquez Mota

• mistake
• perfect
• will

I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes. Alberto Gonzales

• listing
• numbers
• telephone number

When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number. Kinky Friedman

• hope
• hoped
• going

Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven. Freddy Fender

• author
• distrust
• duties

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. Norman Douglas

• ignorance
• saying
• responsibility

I'd love to be the first one to say this, but it automatically turns into - we all have those responsibilities that we ignore because we don't feel like they're ours. Rosario Dawson

• liking
• who
• becoming

I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman. Lauren Hutton

• achievement
• guitar
• first

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement. Brian May

• kiss
• hand
• old

Her old Grannie and subject must be the first to kiss her hand. Queen Mary

• time
• week
• willfulness

Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time. Catherine Crier