#first

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

— Thomas Jefferson

#destruction #first #good #good government #government

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#critics #first #gore #outspoken #senator

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#expense #first #forehead #generals #good

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#based #bass #definitely #drum #especially

When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#brain #comes #faster #first #head

For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's there's crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#child #crocodiles #first #florida #jigsaw

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband. ↗

— Lady Bird Johnson

#first #first lady #her #husband #lady

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#first #happy #having #her #i

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better. ↗

— Magic Johnson

#back #best #better #came #cut

The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time. ↗

— Magic Johnson

#deal #difficult #difficult moment #difficult time #easier