“My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.” IfsKnowsFirstsMadeSaidStillsRunningWantedMotherNightHurtBrokenFineInjuryToesLapI Was Hurt Author:Ronda Rousey
“Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.” IfsFirstsTwoCharacterWaitingLinesFineGlances Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room, you can see a microcosm of what we can do in the world. . . . You should be hopeful on balance about the future. But it's like any future since the beginning of time -- you're going to have to make it.” IfsWorldShouldFirstsLooksStatesCan DoRoomsRaceFineBalanceMajorityCaliforniaHopefulMicrocosm Author:William J. Clinton
“Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.” FirstsNaturalRaceFeetFineDevelopmentMountainConservativeForestsLakesCliffsBrooksFertilePlaygrounds Book:The Works of Theodore Roosevelt Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt
“Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine.” IfsFirstsMatterDreamCareSchoolTogetherEvilStarsBitsWhitePerfectBehindsSunTroubleInfluenceFineFitMoonSpringHumorousMachinesGreenSavedAtomsGearsGloomIndustriousSpatsVatAntimatter Book:The Cyberiad Source: The Cyberiad
“It's like fishing -- you got to get that first one in the boat. Once you get that first one, the skunk is off the boat and everything's cool from then on. You've got to get that first one. Once he gets the first one, I know he'll be fine.” KnowsFirstsFineBoatFishing Author:Dusty Baker
“Could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income tax for the first 126 years of her history.” YearsFirstsIdeasSeemsAmericaFineTaxesIncomeRadicalIncome Tax Author:Ron Paul