Famous quotes containing the words began and/or performing:
“Jesus was about thirty years old when he began his work.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 3:23.
“And no one, it seemed, had had the presence of mind
To initiate proceedings or stop the wheel
From the number it was backing away from as it stopped:
It was performing prettily; the puncture stayed unseen....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)