Quotes about First

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

We love, because He first loved us.

Because humans are capable of knowing, the first cause that produced them must have a mind. Because humans are capable of choosing, the first cause must have a will. And so on. Philosopher Étienne Gilson captures the argument neatly: because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must be also a Someone.

He is not only its omega but also its alpha, and he is and can be its omega only as he is its alpha."1

The name of the first river is Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.

And as she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it around his wrist. “This one came out first,” she announced.

“Please, sir,” they said, “we really did come down here the first time to buy food.

“This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.

For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

“On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.