Quotes About Beginnings

My first job was at a Burger King.

The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry.

Radio was my first love as a broadcaster and where it all began for my on-air career.

I did my first play around four or five. I can't remember the first one, but I did 'Annie' when I was five.

I managed to get a short film with Channel 4 Films. I cast a young actor who'd done a bit of television before, a young actor called Ewan McGregor. That was very first thing. This writer had won this competition, and I made this little short, black and white movie. I think for both Ewan and I it was the start of our careers.

I went to school to learn to be a hairdresser. I worked at a wholesale florist, where I delivered to florists all over New Jersey. I'd come home and go out to work down at the Shore. The early jobs, I remember, were $5, $6 a night. And I lived in the projects right until the time I became successful.

One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

I used to go swimming and passed the tennis courts every day, and that's how it started. My mum said, 'Why don't you play tennis in your summer holidays because you have nothing to do except swim for an hour or whatever?,' and that's how I started playing.

I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.

It's funny to look back - Tessa was seven and I was nine. I remember there wasn't a lot of talking at the beginning. We were terrified to hold hands for quite a while.

There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin.

Come, join your kin and lend strength to the weaker ones. Together, together, we journey, back to our beginnings and our endings. Gather, shore-born creatures of the sea, to return to the shores yet again. Bring your dreams of sky and wings; come to share the memories of our lives. Our time is come, our time is come. - She Who Remembers

what I have become. And so I begin again, and again, but always find that I am writing of my own beginnings rather than the beginnings of this land. I do not even know to whom I try to explain myself. My life has been a web of secrets, secrets that even now are unsafe to share. Shall I set them all down on fine paper, only to create from them flame and ash? Perhaps. My memories reach back to when I was six years old. Before that, there is nothing, only a blank gulf

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copy-books; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end, he said, dolefully.

and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end.

I make so many beginnings there never will be an end

Jo March : I can't believe childhood is over. Meg March : It was going to end one way or another. And what a happy end.

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks, and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end

eu sigo virando páginas e estragando-as, como costumava estragar meus cadernos de exercício, e faço tantos começos que nunca haverá um fim.

I want to see the story. More than anything, I am frustrated by the fact that I'll never know how things turn out.

Life is one grand sweet song so start the music

All the while we know that the true beginnings of an event lie half hidden in earlier movements, so that the visible starting point is in fact a culmination of forces which pre-dated its appearance.