Quotes About Beginning

M. How do you think Christianity started? Or anything else? With a little group of people who didn't give up hope.

I'm in shock now. I'm not believing this, Mitch. This is like a bad dream, only much worse." "And this is only the beginning.

Why can't a man have more than one life? Where was it written that you couldn't start over? And over?

has a new father and a new life." I cannot

was the beginning of the Tudor claim to an "Anglo-British

It was also the prelude

Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

Non temere che la vita giunga a una fine, temi piuttosto che non abbia mai inizio.

Unlike Alice, Garp was a real writer —not because he wrote more beautifully than she wrote but because he knew what every artist should know: as Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions. Garp did not write faster than anyone else, or more; he simply always worked with the idea of completion in mind.

That was when I first began to think about certain events or specific things being important and having special purpose. Until then, the notion that anything had a designated, much less a special purpose would have been cuckoo to me. I was not what was commonly called a believer then, and I am a believer now; I believe in God, and I believe in the special purpose of certain events or specific things.

As Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions.

Of course, I was not yet born when my mother told her parents she was pregnant

If your first day of school, like your first tattoo, is a pilgrim experience—well, here was Jack's.

When my mother felt my father take her hand into his—they were not clapping—she did not resist him; she gave back equal pressure, both of them never taking their eyes from the bulky bear performing below them, and my mother thought: I am nineteen and my life is just beginning.

Ogni volta che lanci una lumaca dalla darsena, Ray disse a Homer Wells per canzonarlo, costringi qualcuno a ricominciare la vita daccapo. Magari gli faccio un favore, disse Homer Wells, l'orfano.

What makes the first sentence of A Prayer for Owen Meany such a good one is that the whole novel is contained in it.

There is an old saying well begun is half done - 'tis a bad one. I would use instead, Not begun at all till half done; so according to that I have not begun my Poem and consequently (a priori) can say nothing about it.

There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, And a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, And a blush for just begun it.

The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

A school's job [is] to begin education.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Let the experience begin!

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.