Famous Quotes & Sayings

We began as a 'shop-at-home' drapery design service.

John Turner

We began a cancer fund drive in conjunction with the tournament, ... She was a close friend, and I felt like I wanted to do something to honor her and raise money for cancer awareness.

This is unprecedented since our firm began surveying tech skills pay in 2000.

I hit some shots and then the outside game began clicking. They really had to respect our outside shooters, and it really opened it up inside for me.

I really got into officiating to try and get things organized. I went to the state (officials) organization and began to put together a directory of officials, especially at the junior-high level. I think it gave a lot of new people a resource in how to get officials and how to get involved.

Graham Nash

I plowed myself into listening to about 98% of everything that was ever recorded in the past 20-odd years-I began to fall back in love with why I love David and Steven in the first place. It put us back in touch with what our strengths were, and it was a thrilling process.

Ike Skelton

In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded.

Investors remain skeptical of the rally that began in April. Therefore, the rally could restart.

In the beginning, even before we had a chance to have serious talks, they began making preparations for a labor dispute.

In order to do business with people in Asia, one must have a relationship. That began the relationship.

In 2009, I began creating 'Waterworks' with the new vernacular coming from the 'Signs of Life' work in Las Vegas.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

In 2007, Lindsay Lohan seemed to be on top of the world, a bona fide star who had her pick of acting gigs. But it wasn't long before the veneer cracked, and Lindsay's life began to shatter.

I had decided to buy in on the complete good-eating-habit program, and after surgery, I began losing one-half pound to a pound per day,

Alan Hovhaness

I had been composing but I didn't know I was. When I realized that this was what I had been doing, I began to take it seriously.

Scott Turow

In the wake of the Sixties they began to celebrate diversity and pluralism.

In the U.S. and Canada, the majority of our pricing, which we began to take post-Labor Day, is in place and it is holding.

Trent Lott

In the summer of 2002...the President began lobbying for an open-ended resolution empowering him to wage war on Iraq.... Bush had made clear his intentions to wage war on Iraq in several of our private meetings.

Kate Christensen

In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.

Roger McGuinn

I didn't really enjoy reading until I married my wife and we began reading the Bible out loud to each other every day. I enjoy reading now, and there is a whole world of books out there to explore.

Edward Hirsch

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences.

Paula Zahn

began to transform her public persona from the warm, fun-loving 'Queen of nice' to a self-proclaimed '(expletive)'.

Maajid Nawaz

Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.

Eddie Floyd

Hey, we thought it was kinda neat, ... It was sort of an exchange thing, the way I felt. You know, with guys from England coming to the U.S. and then we began to go over there.

Joseph Bruchac

I don't recall exactly when I first began reading about Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery, but I suspect that it was in fourth grade.

In 2000, new management began full-scale renovations of each of the units,

In a single moment ... he began the long chain of falsehoods that have led us to our moment of truth here today,

James Nesbitt

I lived a dual life, and when my dual life exploded, I began to feel much happier.

John Leo

Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged humans, young and old, don't qualify for personhood because their lives have lost value.

Omar Bongo

In other words, the fundamental values (freedom, justice, equality of rights) began to be respected by France and the United States in the 1950s-1960s, after decolonization and assuring civil equality between Blacks and Whites.

I regret what began as a friendship came to include this conduct,

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

Clearly, when she began selling these on eBay to us, she knew it was illegal.

His life and accomplishments continue to inspire Rensselaer students, Rensselaer faculty, Rensselaer staff and the entire Rensselaer family. And we are very honored to have the recognition for him in proximity to the campus where he began is illustrious career.