I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.Quote by Orson Scott about civilization
I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.Quote by Aaliyah about truth, work
At age nine I began serving long stints in juvenile detention quarters. At age twelve I was sent to the Utah State Industrial School For Boys... at age eighteen I was released as an adult.Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about age, olderness, school, state
Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.Quote by Neil Abercrombie about common sense, old, olderness, good, good luck
Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.Quote by Neil Abercrombie
Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.Quote by F. Murray Abraham about character
When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living...Quote by Floyd Abrams about law, press, memory
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.Quote by Russell Baker about poetry, world
I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.Quote by Russell Baker about poetry, world
At some point, I stumbled across a reference to a mission the United States sent to Antartica in 1941, just before the war began.Quote by Michael Chabon about war
The world of ecology, the idea that every single thing is related to everything else and that everything anybody does has an effect on the world-I began to see the world in a way I hadn't before.Quote by Julie Christie about world, idea, things
But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.Quote by Martin Feldstein about commerce, value, beginning
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.Quote by Robert Owen about religion, error
I began developing the plug-in collection because of several severe shortcomings in Finale that were causing me many hours of tedious manual work.Quote by Robert Patterson about end, work
When I first began working on music in portrait orientation, it was one of the most liberating experiences I've ever had in Finale.Quote by Robert Patterson about music, end
The President reminded us that the war in Iraq is a central battlefield in the war on terror that began the morning of September the 11th.Quote by Mike Pence about politics, war, fear
I enrolled in the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, now Polytechnic University, and began studying chemical engineering.Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about education
When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.Quote by Kenneth Grahame about literature, dark, air