I turned 24 in the middle of my first World Cup and it was quite an unbelievable experience. It's really hard for words to do it justice.
It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment, and to appreciate the natural riches there first-hand.
My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.
The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.
Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.
When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.
I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.
You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community.
I ski fast for me, first and foremost, and I ski fast for my family, and it's always the love that gets me to the podium.
It's very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.
I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.
My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.
When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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 first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher.
