#first

The first black president will be a politician who is black. ↗

— Doug Wilder

#first #politician #president #who #will

Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done. ↗

— Angus Young

#done #easy #ever #first #first thing

Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season? ↗

— Magenta Periwinkle

#coming-of-age #cutting #cutting-class #first-love #geeks

Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#idealism #love #love-at-first-sight #poetry #romance

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#american people #downward #each #first #leaders

I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#defense #feel #first #high #high level

I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it. ↗

— John Otto

#conscious #exactly #felt #first #groove

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#first #first time #former #i #lover

For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death. ↗

— John Oxenham

#breath #death #first #life #touch

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy. ↗

— Joseph Hall

#first #god #happy #make #must