My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
God's first creature, which was light.
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
The first picture of me that I know of was me in the crib wearing a pair of cowboy boots.
I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.
I wrote 'Knots and Crosses,' the first of the Rebus books, not even realising that I was writing crime fiction.
In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations.
My first cassette was 'Synchronicity,' and my first CD was U2 'War' and King Crimson 'Discipline.'
Obama cannot erase the Second Amendment without crippling or controlling exercise of the First Amendment.
After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.
The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.
I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one called 'Fingers Crossed,' which is on SoundCloud.
The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.
First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.
Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.
When the image that I built around the first album was crumbling, it was scary: the risk pays off, but the resonances of that risk are not always easy to deal with.
Blockchain Capital was the first dedicated venture fund to invest in crypto and blockchain.
Cub Swanson was the first to talk a lot on fight week in the WEC, and I got there and ran through him.
