Quotes About Beginning

An old Ukrainian proverb warns, "A tale that begins with a beet will end with the devil." That is a risk we have to take.

A better world has gotta start somewhere. Why not with you and me?

It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

There must have been a time, in the beginning, when we could have said – no. But somehow we missed it. Oh well, we'll know better next time.

ROS: I want to go home. Which way did we come in? I've lost my sense of direction. GUIL: The only beginning is birth and the only end is death - if you can't count on that, what can you count on?

They had stared at her with great uncomprehending eyes. Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything. Unblinking and unabashed, they stared up at her. The end of the world lay in their eyes, and the beginning, and all the waste in between.

She did not know it then, but the word baby, said softly and with such kindness, that inaugurated her life in the world as a woman.

Adam first, Eve next, and also, confused about her role, the first outlaw?

Originally, Sula opened with 'Except for World War II, nothing interfered with National Suicide Day.' With some encouragement I recognized that sentence as a false beginning." Falseness, in this case, meant abrupt. There was no lobby, as it were, where the reader could be situated before being introduced to the goings-on of the characters.

Nina Simone helped delay the beginning of the end.

I always know the ending; that's where I start.

History is lived forward but it is written in retrospect,' the English historian C.V. Wedgwood observed. 'We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.

Oh, you're so wrong, Henry," she said. "In fact, it's only just begun.

It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if all I was doing was making it worse.

Lif and Lifthrasir will have children. Their children will have children. There will be life and new life, life everywhere on earth. That was the end; and this is the beginning.

That's where the raiders would come from, and where Wales begins. That's where the world starts to turn blue.

Starting is the most difficult part

The end is almost always the beginning of something better.

You are going to have such an amazing life, Frankie," he told me. "If this is how it starts? It's almost breathtaking how good your life will be.

In the dense air, a gong reverberated. I wondered if it was to announce the end of my journey or the beginning of a new one.

I'm saying I know all about you, whoever you are, it's spring and it's starting again, the longing that begins, and begins, and begins.

and it's starting again, the longing that begins, and begins, and begins.

Life is my seed, I have yet to sprout.

To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.