#first

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety. ↗

— David Brainerd

#endeavour #first #life #practise #resolve

All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#appendage #bound #competing #degenerate #first

We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#bought #brighter #brighter future #change #did

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#bring #committee #common #common sense #diplomatic

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift. ↗

— Wernher von Braun

#best #confirmation #first #get #gift

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#age #although #becoming #college #coming

I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#doctors #first #had #heart #i

There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority. ↗

— John Breaux

#american people #claim #could #everybody #first

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one. ↗

— Crystal Gayle

#first #get #good #groups #had

I always begin to compose the melody first. ↗

— Nobuo Uematsu

#begin #compose #first #i #i always