Quotes About Beginnings

I was very small when I started making music. I think the first song might have been when I was, like, in grade one, maybe? It was really ironic, cause it was a kid talking about taking time with growing up.

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

It's amazing how the biggest things in our lives - when we're around the fireplace and talking about them when we're older - the things that matter the most to us start off amazingly small and in a humble way.

The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.

Las mayores y más trascendentales revoluciones suelen comenzar en silencio, ocultas en las sombras-me contempló-Recuerda eso

No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.

In the little patch of concrete by the front porch were the two pennies stuck in there when Leroy and I started first grade. "Long as we got those two cents," Carrie would say, "we ain't broke.

Dearest father in heaven, bless this child and bless this day of new beginnings. Smile upon this child and surround this child, Lord, with the soft mantle of your love. Teach this child to follow in your footsteps, and to live life in the ways of love, faith, hope, and charity.

And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Mariam thought, that she would die this way. Now so bad. This was a legitimate end to a life of legitimate beginnings.

This was a legitimate end to a life of illegitimate beginnings.

I liked beginnings better than endings.

We must be tender with all budding things. Our Maker let no thought of Calvary Trouble the morning stars in their first song.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

In this life ain't no happy endings; Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.

Dateline Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum.

She was careful not to indulge this line of thinking. "I don't remember him," she told Coz. "I have nothing to say." She did this for Coz's protection and her own—they were writing a story of redemption, of fresh beginnings and second chances. But in that direction lay only sorrow.

Theodore Finch, April 3. "Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!

We may not get do-overs in life, but we can always have fresh starts and new beginnings.

Dragonflies signify new beginnings and new unions…sometimes marriage.