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But they know who Adam is from they own point of view. And for a whole lot longer time ago. And who that? Mr. ______ ast. The first man that was white. Not the first man. They say nobody so crazy they think they can say who was the first man. But everybody notice the first white man cause he was white.
— Alice Walker
Jessica wondered what compulsion had brought her to uncover those two things first—the head and the painting. She knew there was something symbolic in the action.
— Frank Herbert
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
— Samuel Johnson
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
— Lucille Ball
The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.
— Dorothy Sayers
ALPHA  (A'LPHA)   n.s.The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to our A; therefore used to signify the first. I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.BibleRevelat.
— Samuel Johnson
Marcus J. Borg, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Where Christ's laws are written in the heart, there all other good laws are best obeyed. None despise man's law but those that despise Christ's first.
— Richard Sibbes
Nature's first green is gold
— Robert Frost
The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.
— Joseph Heller
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.
— William James