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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.

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

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.

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.

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

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

It was important for us to get our confidence back and just start another roll.

I think typically they start cutting for the reason that they're under emotional pain, but the chemicals that are released become a high, and then they cut because they get addicted to that euphoric feeling.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

My main focus at the start of the season was basically to have the best senior year possible for Southwest Missouri State. I really didn't take into consideration the draft that much. I just wanted to help my team win basketball games. Once our season run was over, that's when I really started looking into where I might be going, or if I would go anywhere, so that's when I really started focusing on the next step.

It's about getting kids ready for school, it's about getting them the right start.

We just gave them too many second-chance points to start the second half, and they got some offensive rebounds and we didn't. That was the difference in the ball game.

You have to catch them young. We start with the kids through high school health-career clubs, to grow our own health care professionals and shape their education more locally.

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.