Quotes About Beginnings

I started out writings songs for what I thought was going to be a maximum of five people down our local pub.

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

When I look back at my career as an author, I don't look at the first book that was ever published as to where my career began - I look to the first book that I ever wrote.

I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.

I started producing for Pump - I produced his first songs. 'Lil Pump,' 'Elementary,' 'Johnny Dang' - all that I produced.

I did this film called 'Prom.' It was a Disney movie. And at that point, I didn't know what the hell I was doing. I had no idea how to act. It was purely instinctual. I just remember the first scene I did and the first take, it feeling so right.

After all, island living is where I began on Taransay, and I have such fond memories of it.

I have always been in love with football. As a child, I started playing football.

Don't forget, Stephen Stills and I had a band in Gainesville called the Continentals when we were 15. And, of course, you had Lynyrd Skynyrd in Jacksonville.

I haven't forgotten where I came from.

We started making movies when we were really young, in the fourth grade... if you can call them movies.

Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.

Let me digress a moment to talk about beginnings. How much simpler life would be if we were wise enough to stop at the first blush of romance, the start of a business transaction or a casual friendship. If we knew enough to pause and think: this is as good as it gets. Everything will go downhill from this moment on. So once again our instincts are the opposite of what they should be, propelling us forward exactly when they should be holding us back.

Beginnings are such delicate times.

Beginnings are fragile things.

BaÅŸlang?çlar! Hayat bunlardan ibaret iÅŸte! YaÅŸam var olduÄŸu sürece, her son bir baÅŸlang?çt?r. Ä°nsanl???n sürdürülmesi s?ras?nda vuku bulan hiçbir ölümün tam bir baÅŸar?s?zl?k olmamas? bu yüzdendir. DoÄŸumun bizi bu kadar etkilemesi bu yüzdendir. En trajik ölümün gencin ölümü olmas? bu yüzdendir.

They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives...

I was named first-team Jersey Shore by the Asbury Park Press, the paper I used to deliver as a young boy. I got to Houston and Coach Williams invited me to walk on the golf team. I was the 18th man on an 18-man golf team.

My beginnings in the Southwest are clear and palpable. My beginnings here made me pay attention to where the sun is, where the winds are, the power of the site... I take that baggage with me.

My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy Roche.

When I started out, I was a basketball player at Texas Wesleyan University.

Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.

I started climbing thanks to my parents, who have been going with me on the rocks since I was a baby.

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.