While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.

It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work taking risks trying new things. If the door opens go through it. Always go forwards.

When the British came to Ibo land for instance at the beginning of the 20th century and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places and set up their administrations the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.

Intimacies between women often go backwards beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.

Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate Mitt Romney can contrary to conventional wisdom make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

I'm not wise but the beginning of wisdom is there it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom not the end.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Kindness is more important than wisdom and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Winning is not everything but wanting to win is.

I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.

Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

We are at war and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

More than an end to war we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes an end to this brutal inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.