The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.
Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.
Before you can do something you must first be something.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult.
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.
When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.
Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.
On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.
My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.
The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.
I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.
I wrote my first play when I was eight.