Famous quotes containing the words began and/or calling:
“The captain was a duck
With a packet on his back,
And when the ship began to move
The captain said, Quack! Quack!”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. I saw a ship a-sailing (l. 13–16)
“There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow. Yet it was the schoolboy who said “Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.””
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)