There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history or nothing happens.

A man acquainted with history may in some respect be said to have lived from the beginning of the world and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq we have met our responsibility. Now it's time to turn the page.

Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.

In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days 25 to 30 years ago that was called soft news and not in a nice way.

For the last 3 years we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6 we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall and increases but to decay.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

From the beginning there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic accountable and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods and of every good to man.

Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah everything is beautiful.

In the beginning there was nothing. God said 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing but you could see it a whole lot better.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination how can we be very far from the beginning?