Gradually Began

Famous quotes containing the words gradually and/or began:

“Without our being especially conscious of the transition, the word “parent” has gradually come to be used as much as a verb as a noun. Whereas we formerly thought mainly about “being a parent,” we now find ourselves talking about learning how “to parent.” . . . It suggests that we may now be concentrating on action rather than status, on what we do rather than what or who we are.”
—Bettye M. Caldwell (20th century)

“But the cheerful Spring came kindly on
And show’rs began to fall:
John Barleycorn got up again
And sore surpris’d them all.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)