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and the first words I learnt, were to express my desire "that he would please give me my liberty;" which I every day repeated on my knees. His
— Jonathan Swift
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully.
— Robert Breault
Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?'
— Erma Bombeck
He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.
— Benedict Of Nursia
I was born a premature birth.
My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse"
My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert. — Eminem
My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse"
My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert. — Eminem
Beyond the first few thousand words of English, many words are expansions of more basic words through the addition of morphemes
— Grabe
Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
In our first meeting; you skewered me with your sword. In other words: you started it.
— Kresley Cole
In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.
— Evan Dando
Bartender! Vring me some viskey with chincher ale on de side & don't be stingy, baby. (Garbo's first words in a talking picture)
— Greta Garbo
Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.
— Simon Sinek
Where your heart is, there is your love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Ace would be the first to turn the words into a joke, one about how artists fell in love every day before noon and got their hearts broken by dinner.
— Kit Rocha
I die the kings good servant, but God's first.
— Thomas More
He wants to hear from us, even when our words are little more than angry arrows. Talking about it is the first step to healing.
— Max Lucado
I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
— Thomas More
There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
— James Russell Lowell
My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew.
— Richard Flanagan
I turned 24 in the middle of my first World Cup and it was quite an unbelievable experience. It's really hard for words to do it justice.
— Cobi Jones
You might be a redneck if the first words out of your mouth every time you see friends are Howdy!, Hey! or How Y'all Doin'?
— Jeff Foxworthy
The first million words are the hardest.
— Francis Hamit
Please don't worry about me. My suffering is over. In the wise words of Dylan Thomas ... After the first death, there is no other.
— Colleen Hoover
Yay Condi Rice. I want her to go to Saudi Arabia, and I want her first words upon getting off the plane to be 'I'll drive.'
— James Lileks
That's the first thing you said to me. I was just wondering why you're here. My seven words, I've been wondering the same thing for so long.
— Patrick Rothfuss
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
— Quintilian
Even the not saying can balloon into something bigger than words themselves.
— Jennifer E. Smith
Even as I think these words for the first time, the me who is my future self is remembering me thinking these words for the first time.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Overdrive for a girl I barely know, all because she's the first person I've met who seems to speak my language. A few words of it anyway.
— Jennifer Niven
When you judge someone on their appearance or first words, you miss the opportunity to understand another human being.
— Leon Brown
I first started to sing when I started to talk. As soon as I could form words and sounds together, I was singing.
— Leah LaBelle
It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Before I fell
in love with words,
with setting skies
and singing birds
it was you I fell
in love with first. — Lang Leav
in love with words,
with setting skies
and singing birds
it was you I fell
in love with first. — Lang Leav
First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."
— Alexander Graham Bell
I've always just wanted to tell stories, and create stuff, and I think "Creator" or "Director" would probably be the two words that I go to first.
— Shane Dawson
I can't say what my first thought was as I sunk below the surface, because it was mostly a string of four-letter words.
— Rachel Hawkins
One of the first issues I dealt with was the struggle to find a language, to find my own words.
— Rirkrit Tiravanija
First reach your target in your mind, then reaching your target in reality will just be a formality!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
— Jacques Lacan
Here I sit, beneath the large window of a first-floor Georgian flat, exploring the corridors of my sordid imagination for comedic words of beauty.
— Matt Roper
My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack
— Tupac Shakur
This was not the first time she had squeezed meanings from his words that he never knew were in them.
— Robert Jordan
In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration ... The words used, however, should be old ones.
— Fujiwara No Teika
Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be
— Tea Obreht
Some music has words, and rock had words that at times aspired to poetry, but the words were always sounds first, spoken to the body before the mind.
— Rebecca Solnit
A now notorious first fall into alienation, habituating people to abstract the world into printed words,
— Susan Sontag
The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.
— Erica Jong
Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first, to see it.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Well, you know how a river moves a mountain." The words surprised me at first, but I knew where they were coming from. "Stone by stone," she finished.
— Lisa Wingate
The power of self goes beyond words. Self confidence, self improvement, self esteem, self enhancement, self love ... Get yourself right first!
— Behdad Sami
Some things may be learned from words on a page, but some skills are learned first by a man's hands and heart, and later by his head.
— Robin Hobb
It is called the First Amendment ... Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.
— Jack Valenti
Locomotive, Jimmy read. He knew these words. The first part meant 'crazy'. The second part was a person's reason for doing something.
— Hugh Howey
My first job was four words in 'Family Matters.' It was huge!
— Freddie Prinze Jr.
It's important to put aside your internal editor and just get words down on the page when working on a first draft.
— S.J. Scott
Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.
— John Milton
Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."
The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels? — Sarah MacLean
The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels? — Sarah MacLean
My first words, as I was being born [ ... ] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.
— Stephen Fry
I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.
— Adam Levine
Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
I don't know what any of my tunes are about, they're just out there. I'm not good with words. I just say the first thing that comes into my head
— Liam Gallagher
The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second you.
— Dashiell Hammett
Impingement, in other words, is all around, and this freedom business is much messier than it looks at first blush.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
I do," Ellie said, then groaned inwardly. Those were the words that had put her in this position in the first place.
— Gerri Russell
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
— Jeffrey Archer
Be friendly first. Service starts with a friendly person with a friendly smile, who offers friendly words first. How friendly are you?
— Jeffrey Gitomer
I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful.
— John Boyega
I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.
— Charles Stross
Valentine, just a few words to tell you how I love you. I have loved you since the first day I saw you. Whenever that was.
— Charles M. Schulz
Words are cheap but they gain greater worth when they first minister to the speaker of the same.
— Nana Awere Damoah
For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first!
— Meredith Duran
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
— Jean-Philippe Rameau
When you want to be honored by others, you learn to honor them first.
— Sathya Sai Baba
I cannot recall the words of my first poem but I remember a promise I made my pen never to leave it lying in somebody else's blood.
— Audre Lorde
If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.
— Charles Baudelaire
Truthfully, wicked people reveal themselves in words first, to inhibit speech would inhibit us seeing the wicked before they act.
— Leviak B. Kelly
To leave the road of continual failure, a person must first utter the three most difficult words to say: 'I was wrong.
— Dale Carnegie
Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'
— Helen Mirren
For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.
— Chester Bennington
It's just sewing words together. Random words in any order. It doesn't even have to mean anything. It just has to mean something to you.
— Katie Kacvinsky
In the words of Euripides, 'those whom the Gods wish to destroy, first they make mad'.
— Catharine Arnold
For the first time in my life, I said the words, I need a drink.
— Cristina Marrero
The words hit, a sucker punch that first inspired pain, then a powerful impulse to strike back.
— Rob Thomas
Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.
— Timothy Keller
She's not the one I want." His words came out terse. "It's you. It's been you since ... since the minute I first saw you.
— C.C. Hunter
TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying deeds, and not words, are what count most.
— Napoleon Hill