Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. Hosea Ballou
I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in. Cole Porter
The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains. Thomas Henry Huxley
Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two. Honoré de Balzac
He who commences many things finishes but few. Romanian Proverb