The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.
Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.
You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out.
Even at the last minute we were still debating what was gonna be released as the first single.
It sounded good. It was a story that Victor Conte told me to use. I was contacted by Dr. Goldman, and that's how the story came about. And that was my first time ever meeting, or speaking, to Dr. Goldman.
The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
It's almost scary how good things are right now. I've been engaged now for about a year, and it's the first time anything like that has happened to me.
As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.
Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh.
I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.
It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.
I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.