Stand Began

Famous quotes containing the words stand and/or began:

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)