“First things first. Get the facts, then decide what to do next. And hope that there is a next.”
Source: The Mortal Word (2018), Chapter 2 (p. 33)
Quoted in various newspaper articles, e.g. Albuquerque Morning Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.), February 16, 1922 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84031081/1922-02-16/ed-1/seq-7/, and The Bridgeport Times, February 18, 1922 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92051227/1922-02-18/ed-1/seq-10/
“First things first. Get the facts, then decide what to do next. And hope that there is a next.”
Source: The Mortal Word (2018), Chapter 2 (p. 33)
Reported in Thomas Jones, The Duties of Man and Other Essays (1915), page 61
The Danites: and Other Choice Selections from the Writings of Joaquin Miller (1877), p. 52.
Lena Horne (ca. 1997) in: Susan Ratcliffe (2012) Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, p. 208
Essays on Woman (1996), The Separate Vocations of Man and Woman According to Nature and Grace (1932)
“I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.”