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I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

The recumbent bike works your large muscle groups to start the blood flowing and get prepared for the task at hand.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.

Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

Pushing kids too early is a problem I've seen through the years. If you start them too early, by the time they're in high school they're burned out on it.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

It's a time to make a fresh start and make changes in your life.

When you start seeing an area that was all tundra, and now all of a sudden, you see more shrubs or you see the forest encroaching, that is of great importance in terms of hydrology and ecology.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you'll just be the thirteenth clown.

To start with, we were advised not to sue. That was the week before Christmas, but shortly after that we were advised to get an attorney.

It's a great way to feel young again. I can't wait to actually get on the grass and start playing.

The best way to stimulate emancipation is to start to educate your sons to be humans instead of men, and to educate your daughters to be humans instead of women.

Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.

Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there.