The insurgency began and you missed it.

When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall off, and…

— Soledad O'Brien

We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were…

— Jack Adams

“Begin as you mean to go on, and go on as you began, and let the Lord be all in all to you.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten…

— Rumi

I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until…

— Bryan Batt

I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism'…

— Caleb Landry Jones

When God made the world, all things began with him. Life, death, it all began when he said so. That includes you and me…

— Manae Poet Of Carisis

“I'm not giving up my life. My life began when I met you.”

— Shannon Eckrich

I was precocious, so I began reading 'Cosmo' when I was 12.

— Joanna Coles

When the 2008 victory of Barack Obama and the defeat of grumpy old John McCain began looking, um, inevitable, I started fielding inquiries about…

— Rick Perlstein

I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera.

— Shweta Tripathi

The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In…

— Gail Collins

I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound…

— Chip Kidd

I wasn‘t—" I began. I didn‘t—" He began. How charming," V‘lane cut us off. His voice arrived before he did. "The very portrait of…

— Karen Marie Moning

Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would…

— Rick Perlstein