“Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.” YearsFirstsDifferentMomentsLightLastsWinningHoursReligiousDarknessSunImagineEventsMoonWorshipSpringDrawsTraditionFollowingFixedDramaticSundayCosmicRootedEasterParallelsFull MoonReligious TraditionsEquinoxSun God Author:Tom Harpur
“The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.” FirstsBigsWinningParentBreakGoneLuckyUniversityScholarshipCambridgeUniversity EducationCambridge University Author:Trevor Nunn
“I'm really looking forward to getting back and winning some matches but I'm not thinking about the U.S. Open yet, just getting through my first match.” ThinkingFirstsWinningLooking Forward Author:Greg Rusedski
“So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility.” PeopleThinkingMenWantFirstsActorsWinningCareersInvolvedToughIncrediblesHolesPrizeRabbitsCredibilityCameronRabbit HolesTough ManPrize Winning Author:Miles Teller
“Becoming the first Canadian male to win a Major Championship, especially being the Masters, was a dream come true.” FirstsDreamWinningMastersBecomingMajorsMalesChampionshipDreams Come True Author:Mike Weir
“Horseshoes are lucky. Horses have four bits of lucky nailed to their feet. They should be the luckiest animals in the world. They should rule the country. They should win all their horse races, at least. 'In the fifth race today, every single horse was first equal...one horse threw a shoe came in third...the duck was ninth...and five ran.'” WorldShouldFirstsCountryTodayWinningBitsAnimalRaceFiveFourFeetLuckyEqualThirdsHorseShoesRanDucksFifthHorseshoes Author:Eddie Izzard
“We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.” FirstsWinningRaceBottomExecutionFundingMississippiPublic Education Author:Kinky Friedman
“I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job.” YearsFirstsPlayWantedJobsGamesWinningTennis Author:Gabriela Sabatini
“Aberjhani is an award-winning poet who is featured in our first DREAM REACHERS book. An awesome talent.” FirstsBookDreamWinningTalentPoetAwardsAward Winning Author:Betty Dravis
“Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral process we do, you don't need the popular vote to win.” NeedsYearsFirstsHas BeensTodayWinningProcessPresidentYears AgoVoteTwentiesIraqSaddamHusseinTwenty OnePopular VoteElectoral Process Author:Jay Leno
“So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.” FirstsBookSometimesFightingLiteratureWinningRightsSpeechLosingDefenseComicFundAmendmentsFreedom Of SpeechComic BookFirst AmendmentFirst Amendment Rights Author:Neil Gaiman
“Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.” FirstsLastsDeathWinningDyingApproachBraveInnuendoWooingSuppleSuitors Author:Emily Dickinson
“I really want to do well at this upcoming match! I'm going to try really really hard! Because it may be my dad's first memory of a match. I really want to win.” WantTryingFirstsWellsMayHardWinningMemoriesDadDramaMy Dad Author:Kim Su-mi
“It's always great to play at home. I won here last year and it's great to start with a win like this today. The first match was difficult and I thought it was step in the right direction.” YearsFirstsPlayHomeTodayLastsWinningDifficultStepsLast YearRight DirectionSteps In The Right Direction Author:Gustavo Kuerten
“It's been an incredible few weeks for Emma Pooley, first winning three stages in the Giro Rosa to demonstrate that she's the best climber in the women's peloton, then lining up for La Course - a race she helped to make happen - on the Champs-Elyses. So, it may come as a surprise to hear that she will retire after the Commonwealth Games road race on Sunday.” FirstsMayHappensThreeCoursesGamesWinningRaceWeekStageSurpriseIncrediblesSundayRetiringCommonwealthEmmaClimbersRosaLining UpCommonwealth Games Author:Emma Pooley
“Andrew Luck, if he gets to his first Super Bowl and he wins that Super Bowl, that means he won on the road every game except for that first playoff game. He went and beat Peyton Manning…Then that means he went and beat Tom Brady…Then he would either have to beat Aaron Rodgers or the Seattle Seahawks. That’s a pretty tough hill to climb. If he does that, he’s just solidified himself in that conversation as an elite quarterback.” IfsFirstsMeanDoeGamesWinningConversationBeatsToughLuckHillsClimbsElitesTomsBowlsQuarterbackSuper BowlAndrewSeattlePlayoffsBradyPeytonPlayoff GamesAaron Rodgers Author:Charles Woodson
“Get the mind right, the body will follow, you lose some battles in life, but if you always put your heart and passion forward first as your main objective, you will win the war, that’s what gives you the strength to get off the ground… and do it again.” IfsGivingMindFirstsHeartWarBodyPassionWinningLosesBattleObjectives Author:Greg Plitt
“I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful statement: 'Define yourself.' I rehearsed it a million times during the 2005 Chicago Marathon [her first win].” ThinkingFirstsSaidImportantSometimesWinningPowerfulMillionsStatementsChicagoVersesMarathonMantrasStaleDefine Yourself Author:Deena Kastor