Quotes of: Commenced Keyword

Tibeats: I thought I told yah ta commence ta puttin' on clapboards this morn'.

12 Years a Slave

Ce que Paris conseille, l'Europe le médite ; ce que Paris commence, l'Europe le continue.

Victor Hugo

It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.

Goldwin Smith

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

Garry Trudeau

I at once commenced the ascent through a shower of arrows.

George Crook

Love is winning the war without starting the war. (L'amour, c'est gagner la guerre - Sans commencer la guerre)

Charles de Leusse

All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.

John Amery

Obituaries are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. I defy you to find a single obituary that begins, "Jane Doe won the Nobel Prize in large part because she was ad...

10 1/2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said

The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.

Ernestine Rose

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

Sydney J. Harris

Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.

Henry Brooke

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

Sarah Bernhardt

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.

Paul Tsongas

King George VI: Waiting for me to... commence a conversation, one can wait rather a long wait.

The King's Speech

I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

Death in the Afternoon

The commencement of true happiness is the realization that your happiness begins with you.

Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy

Some who grow dull religious straight commence And gain in morals what they lose in sense.

Minor Poems

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

Looking for Alaska

You cannot live your life in ifs and maybes...you cannot live it in week commencings. You live it right here. You live it now.

Leftovers

Du jour où il nait, l'homme commence à mourir; c'est la vérité qu'incarne la Mère.

Le deuxième sexe I