The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the complete exclusion of religious beliefs from our public classrooms.
For me, you say the words ‘concept record,’ and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.
When another comedian has a lousy show, I’m the first one to admit it.
I’m happy to be making my first appearance on air professionally. By that I mean I’m finally getting paid, which I know will be a great relief to my creditors.
Every member of the priesthood should understand the divine plan designed by the Lord to raise up the first free people in modern times.
The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn’t work.
Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.
When I first started I was always known as The Girl on the Sitcom with the Funny Voice.
When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.
The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
A feeble mind, conscious of its own feebleness, grows feeble under that very consciousness. As soon as the power of fear becomes known to it, there follows the fear of fear, and, on the first perturbation, reason abandons it.
Truth is meant to save you first. The comfort comes afterward.
The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
First causes are outside the realm of science.
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm.
For me, the walk of the character is always the first part that I must define for myself.