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Quotes About Beginning

up. With it came some warmth, small bits of it at first, and with the heat came
~ Gary Paulsen
Consciousness rejuvenates everything, giving a quality of beginning to the most everyday actions.
~ Gaston Bachelard
The chief thing is to begin, after all—after which the chief thing is to finish.
~ Gene Wolfe
The second came not as they are ordinarily born—that is, head foremost as a man climbs from a lower place into a high—but feet foremost as a man lets himself down into a lower place. His grandmother was holding his brother, not knowing that two were to be born, and for that reason his feet beat the ground for a time with no one to draw him forth. Because of this his mother called him John Sandwalker.
~ Gene Wolfe
It was in this fashion that I began the long journey by which I have backed into the throne.
~ Gene Wolfe
So far I've only read a page but I like that page a lot.
~ Geoff Dyer
Lo que comenzó mal, rara vez y con muchísima dificultad concluirá bien.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing—a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
~ George Bernard Shaw
All truths begin as blasphemies.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed
~ George Clason
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
~ George Eliot
No retrospect will take us to the true beginning
~ George Eliot
Our consiousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us anymore than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.
~ George Eliot
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.
~ George Eliot
Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.
~ George Eliot
Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives is a still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honeymoon in Eden, but had their first little one among thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic-the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which makes the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.
~ George Eliot
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
~ George Eliot
One can begin so many things with a new person!— even begin to be a better man.
~ George Eliot
I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
~ George Eliot
I thought we should never part with that while we lived; everything is going away from us; the end of our lives will have nothing in it like the beginning!
~ George Eliot
Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.
~ George Elliot
That first meeting - the one where the hero and heroine start the slow burn that takes the whole story to turn into true love - is the single most important part of the whole book. Nail it, and you've won yourself readers.
~ Sarah MacLean
An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting.
~ Bipasha Basu
My very first competition was at the end of 2005. Honestly, I just looked it up online and tried to find something local, because I had no idea how to do it or where to start. I did Denver's Strongest Man here in Colorado, and I won.
~ Brian Shaw