They Began Quotes
42 quotes by 41 authors
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Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be,…
— Hugh Miller
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It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours…
— Joseph Addison
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The President to-night has a dream:He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment…
— Abraham Lincoln
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My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth…
— Sara Zarr
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If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two hours every day…
— Coleman Hawkins
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Women smirk at baldness. How adorable would they find it if they began to lose their breasts in their late twenties? If both tits just…
— Augusten Burroughs
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At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting.
— Kato Kaelin
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The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by…
— Okakura Kakuzo
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Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can…
— Stanley Fish
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All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making…
— Linda Miles
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Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the…
— Winston Churchill
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Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were…
— Democritus
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I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made the more softly I sang. When…
— Peggy Lee
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But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in…
— George Saintsbury
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That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed a principle in…
— William Penn
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle…
— Frances Farmer
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As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began writing…
— Jon Landau
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