The first word about you is that you received this life.
It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why last? If you've got grandkids, you know they're first when it comes to the joy in your life.
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.
[Manhattan School Of Music] were kind of just getting the jazz program up and going when I first started there. I was 17 in September of 1984 when I started there.
We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.
Of course there are many films about the period of Fascism itself but I don't know of any about that period beforehand. But it wasn't that specific fact that they weren't there that got me to think about this in the first place. It's not what led to the basic idea for the film, although it became apparent when I began to think about it.
I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we're with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives.
Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.
Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.
When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.
The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.
You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.
One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.
The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.
We want to be the first in the field and Rolex should be seen as the one and only-the best.
Being the first is kind of dirty, and it's great
I'm a mom first, a singer second.
Put God first in everything you do. . . Everything that I have is by the grace of God, understand that. It's a gift. . . I didn't always stick with Him, but He stuck with me.
The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.