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Quotes About Beginning

You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.
~ Mary Shelley
Begin Stories With A Hint or Question A good way to capture people's attention and begin telling a story is by giving a small hint of what is to come. For example, you could start a story with, "Something hilarious happened at work yesterday," or "The craziest thing happened to me yesterday," or "I was so happy this morning.
~ Matt Morris
Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.
~ Mattie J.T. Stepanek
Soy yo quien te ha destruido desde el principio, ayudándote.
~ Ayn Rand
Whatever the legend, somewhere in the shadows of its memory mankind knew that its glory began with one and that that one paid for his courage.
~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
new life starts in the dark. Whether it is a seed in the ground, a baby in the womb, or Jesus in the tomb, it starts in the dark.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Morning always comes.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Two dots an inch apart, as small and tidy as punctuation marks at the end of a sentence none of us could read. The sentence would have started somewhere just above her heart.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The essential ingredient of authorship is authority. You hunt it out in a library, you chase it down the street, or you knit it from the fiber of your own will. From somewhere, you get it. You begin
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Soon the maroon-throated howls would echo back from the other trees, father down the beach, until the whole jungle filled with roaring trees. As it was in the beginning, so it is every morning of the world.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
How would you even begin to make a hush puppy, what in the world was in one? Nothing to do with a puppy, surely. Garnett had long known, though he didn't much like to admit it, that God's world and the better part of daily life were full of mysteries known only to women.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The sting of a fly, the Congolese say, can launch the end of the world. How simply things begin.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
First, I got myself born.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
in the first hour of dawn, just as the hem of the sky began to whiten.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I was only just now starting to exist.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Anybody will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
First, I got myself born. The worst of the job was up to me.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
the all-consuming nothingness and everythingness of an infant.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Begin at the beginning as you understood it, proceed through the middle, continue to the end, and then stop, said Master Li, and he sauntered out to get drunk....
~ Barry Hughart
In Arius's view, everything except for God himself had a beginning. Only God is "without beginning.
~ Bart D. Ehrman