What are begins?

Famous quotes containing the word begins:

    My long sickness
    Of health and living now begins to mend,
    And nothing brings me all things.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
    Fawn M. Brodie (1915–1981)