Pastoral Resources

It's my first record since my son is old enough to understand and I can't even show it to him. Yes, it's affected me, probably in the opposite of how anyone would have thought.

Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.

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.

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.

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh.

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response.

There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

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.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.

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.

Even at the last minute we were still debating what was gonna be released as the first single.

You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out.

Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.

The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.

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.

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.