Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the first order. – John Shelby Spong
I was twenty-seven when I began to write seriously, and after two years of rejections, my first book, ‘The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo,’ was accepted for publication. – Judy Blume
All the great chefs I know – Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten – they are technicians first. – Jacques Pepin
I’m not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit. – Justin Timberlake
When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do ‘Talladega Nights,’ so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year. – Jack McBrayer
He’s a novice, but he’s had these – he’s experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started – he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam. – James Stockdale
Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are many innovative technical gadgets. It’s a kind of StarTrek. When I first came there, I was really impressed myself. – Jonathan Brandis
My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn’t come home. – Johnny Vegas
I started wrestling professionally, I did my first television match at 16, but I was wrestling at country fairs and national armories when I was 14. – Jeff Hardy
My first guitar was like a campfire guitar. And it was left at a house that my family had moved into… and the guitar was at the house. It was all strung up. It’s normally something that would be beyond a bit of rubbish. – Jimmy Page
It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR’s irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene. – James Wolcott
Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof. – Ivan Reitman
The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. – James Buchan
Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations – adopted unanimously – called for the elimination of nuclear weapons. – Joseph Rotblat
The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren’t even allowed on location. – James MacArthur
The average person in Hollywood just assumes that if you’re on a hit TV show, then that’s the first thing you’ve ever done. – Isaiah Washington
I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly. – J. August Richards
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. – Jackie Kennedy
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted. – Juvenal
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion. – John Ruskin
I was an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I’ve always had to manage both. I couldn’t get a record deal. It wasn’t by choice – I couldn’t get a record deal, so I had to figure it out. – Jay-Z
I’ve had over a dozen and a half novels published since late 1994 when my first novel, ‘Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls’ came out. – Jane Lindskold
