Quotes of: Began Keyword

What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits.

And the Mountains Echoed

Smartass Disciple: Where were all things before the time began? Master of Stupidity: What was the time before all things created?

Master of Stupidity

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.

My Own Story

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

A Natural History of the Senses

It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it be so for others.

Nerilka's Story

As he drank more and more, he became inebriated, and began to fashion damaged human beings.

Open City

It wasn't until I worked in the Perth Hospital kitchen in the 1970s that I began hearing stories about the ghosts that haunted their halls at night.

Lanark County Chronicle

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

Mere Christianity

Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.

The Sugar Queen

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

Oliver Twist

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

Peter Camenzind

What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.

The Palace the Palace

The slaves toiling in the temple of this god began to feel rebellion at his harsh tasks.

The Red Badge of Courage

The air between them began to settle into a silence. Awkward, yet softly exciting. Like an unexpected snow day.

The Witch of Little Italy

She told me to draw the curtains shut, so I grabbed my pencil and began to sketch.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.

Tom Stoppard

At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did.

Henry Flynt

Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could i...

Mike Wallace

I'm not giving up my life. My life began when I met you.

Haunting Lia

When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.

Leslie Cockburn