Pastoral Resources

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?

If you want to control other people, first control yourself.

I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.