The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914.
It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt.
You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars.
Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.
With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.
If God exists, I'd be the first to be told.
Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.