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Quotes About Beginnings

Each day the first day: Each day a life.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
I never smoked a cigar in my life until I was nine
~ W. C. Fields
Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
~ Carl Sandburg
relieved no one of the obligation to judge right from wrong. But it did require subjecting the past to skepticism, to look to beginnings not to justify ends, but to question them—with evidence.
~ Jill Lepore
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
~ Jim Rohn
You don't need fancy things to feel good. You can hug a puppy. You can buy a can of paint and surround yourself with color. You can plant a flower and watch it grow. You can decide to trust people - the right people. You can decide to start over and let other people start over too" -Sugar Mae Cole
~ Joan Bauer
for beginners. After that, you can set out for
~ Joan D. Chittister
I fell for Levi "Painter" Brooks the first time I saw him, although in all fairness I did have a head injury at the time.
~ Joanna Wylde
Everything ends," she says. "That's nothing to be sad about. What matters is what starts in that moment.
~ Ann Napolitano
I'm sorry it didn't work out," Linda says. Florida smiles at the girl. "Everything ends," she says. "That's nothing to be sad about. What matters is what starts in that moment.
~ Ann Napolitano
He realizes - gripping the arms of his chair as hot pain blinks on and off in his midsection - that all the major chapters in his personal life started and ended on wrinkled bedsheets. All the wives, the would-be wives, the ex-wives, negotiated their terms in the bedroom.
~ Ann Napolitano
Despite these unpromising beginnings, Volodymyr must at some point have decided that to keep pace with its neighbours his empire needed an advanced religion.
~ Anna Reid
We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.
~ Anne Bishop
American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery and political founding of the American nation. If you like your history heroic—and many people seem to—the story of slavery in the early American period is simply not the place to go looking for heroes, at least not among the people most commonly written about. Second
~ Annette Gordon-Reed
American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery and political founding of the American nation. If you like your history heroic—and many people seem to—the story of slavery in the early American period is simply not the place to go looking for heroes, at least not among the
~ Annette Gordon-Reed
I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
~ Katey Sagal
My first proper 'Here's your guitar, Joseph' was a 1981 Chiquita, one of those Erlewine travel guitars. And it was good for a four-year-old because it was small.
~ Joe Bonamassa
When I was 18 or 19, I started writing raps properly.
~ Stefflon Don
I was very excited when the Holburne Museum proposed a show of my ceramics from the 80s and early 90s as it would also be an opportunity to find and record the beginnings of my career.
~ Grayson Perry
Still - so many of the important times in life begin by seeming incidental.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.
~ Kate Moss
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.
~ Helen Dunmore
With film music, endings are often more difficult than beginnings, because a beginning is an underline, a way of exciting a moment, and then you have to find a way to dissipate that.
~ Thomas Newman
A lot of people think that I and Debina met while filming for 'Ramayan,' and then we got married in 2011. Very few know that when we were nothing, we weren't actors, we were only looking for work - we were just 19 and 20 years old, we eloped and got married, in 2006. We did not tell our parents.
~ Gurmeet Choudhary