Quotes About Beginning

If we go back to the beginning of the twentieth century, before government intervention became pervasive in housing markets, we find people paying a smaller percentage of their expenditures for housing than at the end of that century.

Katherine Woodward Thomas

Genesis 1:1–2 says, 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, . . . and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.' Think of Genesis 1:2 like this: 'Shalom hovered over the chaos.

Remember the end of the road is also its beginning.

A newborn is murderous/but can't do anything about it.

the beginning and the end of time. These are the same thing, as everybody knows who came into this universe via a wormhole.

She used to think there would be a greater sense of forward movement in her life, but now it seemed like where a person ended up was going to turn out to have everything to do with where she started.

The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something. - Seth Godin

For an hour we talked of Anne and that famous farm on Prince Edward Island. Thus the friendship began.

You meant it, didn't you?'' He was silent for a moment, no doubt reading my thoughts. ''Yes, I meant it. You are life to me, May.'' ''But you told me you were born in the seventeen hundreds. How could you live for three hundred years without me?'' He examined my face for a moment before leaning forward, his kiss so sweet it made me want to melt. ''Before you, I merely existed. Now I will truly begin to live

I was born. It was easy. My mother did all the hard work.

The struggle has just begun. Right, Allen? Right here! The goal is right here. I'll keep calling you! I'll lead you back! Okay?

That threshold lying at the entrance to each man's and woman's life, I knew without equivocation now, must be recognized and genuflected before.

But in real life, happily-ever-after is just the beginning. It's where life starts.

So, we began our travels knowing nothing, least of all where we were going.

To lose one's name is the beginning of forgetting.

Seize this very minute; what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All he would say was that sometimes you have to burn it down and start over.

A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

What started false religions? In the beginning everyone knew Noah and believed in the one true God. The Scriptures call Babylon the mother of all false religions, because under Nimrod the original false religious system was successfully implemented.

I knew from the beginning it was hopeless, but it's possible to love without hope.

I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

I had a sudden irrational desire to hug her, but there was so much distance between us. My birth had been only the beginning of our separation, the first time I was cut loose. From that moment until now, I'd just been going farther and farther away, my body a lifeboat pushing into the ocean.

O joy not yet begun But only about to be, O sweet invisible unceasing wave Following me, following me, Through the sea-like grave!