The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
Minna Antrim

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
Cal Thomas

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
Ruth Benedict

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
Anne Lamott

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
James Nasmyth

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.
Eleanor Clift

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.
Lee Greenwood

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.
Giacomo Leopardi

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.
Gian Carlo Menotti

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
Beverly Sills

Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House.
Evan Sayet

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Edward Steichen

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
Julia Cameron

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.
Robert Blair

Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.
Jean Vanier

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
Gian Carlo Menotti

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.
Henry James Sumner Maine

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.
James Whistler

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.
Crystal Eastman