Commenced Quotes

41 quotes by 40 authors

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system. — Thomas Paine
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse… — William Hazlitt
Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is usually commenced from,… — Charles Lyell
When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I… — Ulysses S. Grant
Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation. — Benjamin Disraeli
There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is… — Guru Nanak
Opposition to God and His Christ, opposition to light and truth has existed since the beginning to the present day. This is the warfare that… — Wilford Woodruff
A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes.… — William Christopher Handy
Now we see how the astronomical evidence supports the biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the essential elements in… — Robert Jastrow
Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular… — Alfred North Whitehead
My combat action has commenced... I've pissed my pants, but only a little. — Anthony Swofford
I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way… — Julia Gardiner Tyler
Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to 'come off conqueror.'… — Neal A. Maxwell
The time will come when we will be obliged to depend upon our own resources; for the time is not far distant when the curtain… — Heber C. Kimball
Dean Bartoli Smith's Never Easy, Never Pretty will help satisfy the hunger of so many Baltimore Ravens fans wishing to re-live the club's remarkable 2012… — Michael Olesker
If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In… — Robert Green Ingersoll
A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced. — Charles Inglis
I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit… — Francis William Newman
It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time… — Goldwin Smith
I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by… — Henry David Thoreau

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