Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
Every great story seems to begin with a snake.
All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
I didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969.
Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.
I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.
You can't end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can't begin them if you continually negotiate about the terms to begin negotiations.
Omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous and omnipresent all begin with Om.
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.
I do all the classics, like Dylan, Kristofferson, Jimmy Reed, Mexican mariachi songs, some jazz songs from the '30s. Cole Porter's 'Begin the Beguine,' that's one of my favorites.
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.