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Quotes About Beginning

The day life appeared on Earth, death appeared with it.
~ Amos Oz
Mas como se começa um amor numa manhã chuvosa de sábado como esta, num quartinho pobre na velha Bat Yam em meados dos anos sessenta?
~ Amos Oz
A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.
~ Amy Tan
What do you think was the very first sound to become a word, a meaning?' ... And then I realized what the first word must have been: ma, the sound of a baby smacking its lips in search of her mother's breast. Ma, ma, ma. Then the mother decided that was her name and she began to speak, too. She taught the baby to be careful: sky, fire, tiger. A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.
~ Amy Tan
The East is where things begin, my mother once told me, the direction from which the sun rises, where the wind comes from.
~ Amy Tan
Una persona ha de reflexionar sobre el origen de las cosas. Cada comienzo conduce a un fin determinado.
~ Amy Tan
A person should consider how things begin. A particular beginning results in a particular end. I
~ Amy Tan
And then I realized what the first word must have been: ma, the sound of a baby smacking its lips in search of her mother's breast. For a long time, that was the only word the baby needed. Ma, ma, ma. Then the mother decided that was her name and she began to speak, too. She taught the baby to be careful: sky, fire, tiger. A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.
~ Amy Tan
Now the evening is beginning and I will discover a human being to court or to be courted by, an adventure with caprice and desire, and while gambling I might find love.
~ Anais Nin
Down the rusty bars of ladders to the undergrounds of the night propitious to the first man and woman at the beginning of the world. where there were no words by which to possess each other, no music for serenades, no presents to court with, no tournaments to impress and force a yielding, no secondary instruments, no adornments, necklaces, crowns to subdue, but only one ritual, a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous, impaling of a woman on a man´s sensual mast
~ Anais Nin
The end of every road is only the beginning of a new one, even longer and more difficult
~ Anatoli Boukreev
How would one tell a story about happiness? One can only tell of the origins of happiness and its destruction.
~ Andre Gide
I must change my life. Stop and start afresh.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
The good was good and the bad was the beginning of wisdom. (Electric Brae)
~ Andrew Greig
It is the blood that unites the beginning and the end; that GLORIOUSLY RESTORES WHAT SIN HAD DESTROYED.
~ Andrew Murray
Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
~ Ann Brashares
Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.
~ Ann Brashares
Where there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.
~ Ann Brashares
I Pantaloni ci promettevano che c'era tempo. Niente sarebbe andato perduto. Avevamo un anno intero, se ce ne fosse stato bisogno. Avevamo tutta la strada fino all'estate successiva: allora avremmo tirato fuori i Pantaloni e, insieme o separate, avremmo ricominciato da capo
~ Ann Brashares
Show me a man and a woman in love, and I'll show you Adam and Eve.
~ Sam Torode
APORIA  (APO'RIA) n.s. [a figure in rhetorick, by which the speaker shews, that he doubts where to begin for the multitude of matter, or what to say in some strange and ambiguous thing; and doth, as it were, argue the case with himself. Thus Cicero says, Whether he took them from his fellows more impudently, gave them to a harlot more lasciviously, removed them from the Roman people more wickedly, or altered them more presumptuously, I cannot well declare. Smith's Rhetorick.
~ Samuel Johnson
ALPHA  (A'LPHA)   n.s.The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to our A; therefore used to signify the first. I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.BibleRevelat.
~ Samuel Johnson
This might have been the only thing that could have awakened you. Your whole life has been a growing from the outside, mastering the challenges that others have set for you. Now, finally, you might just be growing from inside yourself. It can be a whole new world, Roy, I know it. A whole new life." Eyes wet with tears, she said, "I'm going to love you even more, Roy, because I've been waiting a long time for you to begin.
~ Samuel Shem
Nobody starts out a perfect quilter.
~ Sandra Dallas