Quotes About Beginning

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

It is one of those fables, which, out of an unknown antiquity, convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself; just as the hand was divided into fingers, the better to answer its end.

For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

It is no coincidence that the first two chapters of the Bible (Genesis 1–2) begin with the creation of the heavens and the earth and the last two chapters (Revelation 21–22) begin with the re-creation of the heavens and the earth. All

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.

As Julie Andrews once sang, "Nothing came from nothing. Nothing ever could.

Grandma, he had often wanted to say, Is this where the world began? For surely it had begun in no other than a place like this. The kitchen, without doubt, was the center of creation, all things revolved about it; it was the pediment that sustained the temple.

So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous.

She was beginning to shriek now, sitting there like a wax doll melting in its own heat.

The cat came first, in order to be absolute first. It arrived when all the cribs and closets and cellar bins and attic hang-spaces still needed October wings, autumn breathings, and fiery eyes.

this and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears, he is a protector.

The nightmare of living was begun.

We begin by beginning, I guess

I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages have. They still belonged to the beginnings of time—

Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded

I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages have. They still belonged to the beginnings of time.

A clean slate, did he say? As if the initial word of each our destiny were not graven in imperishable characters upon the face of a rock.

Thither went afterwards the Chosen Vessel, To bring back comfort thence unto that Faith, Which of salvation's way is the beginning.

The time was the beginning of the morning, And up the sun was mounting with those stars

It was with these feelings that I began the creation of a human being.

Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.

You began in a sperm cell as a strand of DNA that still doesn't know who you are.

That was my first job after graduating (or being graduated from) high school.