Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter but are quickly forgotten.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong we may begin to use it with love and respect.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness but after that he begins to bunch them.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle love is a war love is a growing up.

Let us always meet each other with smile for the smile is the beginning of love.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Beginning today treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care kindness and understanding you can muster and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.

Don't let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

Even in the beginning when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song as one songwriter to another I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is perhaps the greatest lesson of all.

I like to start out each day from the beginning. I'm always learning things.

I didn't miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight into coaching and it was great I had to start learning all over again and then when I went into TV I knew nothing about it so I had to start from the very beginning.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.