Start Date

Famous quotes containing the words start and/or date:

“We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost.”
—Samuel Fuller (b. 1911)

“I date the end of the old republic and the birth of the empire to the invention, in the late thirties, of air conditioning. Before air conditioning, Washington was deserted from mid-June to September.... But after air conditioning and the Second World War arrived, more or less at the same time, Congress sits and sits while the presidents—or at least their staffs—never stop making mischief.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)