Stand Began

Famous quotes containing the words stand and/or began:

    “By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “I went back to my work, but now without enthusiasm. I had looked through an open door that I was not willing to see shut upon me. I began to reflect upon life rather seriously for a girl of twelve or thirteen. What was I here for? What could I make of myself? Must I submit to be carried along with the current, and do just what everybody else did?”
    —Lucy Larcom (1824–1893)