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First Class Quotes

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
- Jack Adams

I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
- Noel Coward

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
- Alexandre Dumas

My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in the morning. Only 699 days and 7 class periods until graduation.
- Laurie Halse Anderson

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
- Robert Benchley

You're crazy," said her best friend, Angela, as the bell rang to signal five minutes before the first class on the first day back at school.
"They said that about all the great visionaries.".
"You know who else they said it about?" Angela demanded. "All the actual crazy people.
- Sarah Rees Brennan

I gotta say"Apollo broke the silence"these kids did okay." He cleared his throat and began to recite: "Heroes win laurels"
Um, yes, first class," Hermes interrupted, like he was anxious to avoid Apollo's poetry.
- Rick Riordan

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.
- Phil Collins

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
- Louis Dudek

If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.
- Ray Floyd

I met Kevin when I was 19, at a Second City workshop. We were paired up together in the first class I went to. By the end of the class we formed our improv group, and over the next three years we performed leading up to the formation of The Kids in the Hall.
- Dave Foley

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.
- Dick Gregory

... I will get a First Class Honors degree and I will become a scientist... And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.
- Mark Haddon

Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.
- Shia Labeouf

It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
- Alfred Marshall

But life is not like that. You are not an airline. You can't remove a single olive from every salad served in first class and save one point two million dollars.
- Lynn Messina

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.
- George Miller

Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat Ali began the first classes by reading to them from poetry and religious texts. "Reading, literature, and spirituality are good for the soul," he told them. "So we will start with these studies.
- Greg Mortenson

Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.
- Andy Pick

After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result.
- Frederick Sanger

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.
- Philip Schaff

Everything about the Olympics was first class, and women were treated as athletes and equals.
- Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz

There are only two classes - first class and no class.
- David O Selznick

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
- Ernest Shackleton

I was reminded of the time I got a free upgrade to first class, where I sat right next to Sean Connery. Tongue-tied, I couldn't think of a thing to say besides, "You're Sean Connery," of which presumably he was aware.
- Lionel Shriver

If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.
- Gene Simmons

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.
- Gene Simmons

Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
- Anna Garlin Spencer

As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is... I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I'm out there, I'm getting the nice hotel suite, I'm getting the luxury car, I'm eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road.
- Trish Stratus

They said, 'If we put you in first class with Brian, will you do it?' So I flew after not having flown in eight years. If there's one person who doesn't like flying as much as me, it's Brian.
- Matthew Sweet

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.
- Frederick W Taylor

When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.
- Sachin Tendulkar

I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.
- Randy Travis

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.
- Shane Warne

But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.
- Dan Wheldon

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.
- Minoru Yamasaki

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