Quotes About Beginnings

If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to their ankles.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

Nadie puede volver a empezar, por lo menos que yo sepa. Todos decimos que queremos encontrar una manera de empezar la vida de nuevo, pero las cosas no son así.

has proved to be true. You have a first city as you have a first lover, and this was mine.

Beginnings, it's said, are apt to be shadowy.

Beginnings, it's said, are apt to be shadowy. So it is with this story, which starts with the emergence of a new species maybe two hundred thousand years ago.

Beginnings, it's said, are apt to be shadowy. So it is with this story, which starts with the emergence of a new species maybe two hundred thousand years ago. The species does not yet have a name—nothing

But ends are also beginnings, you know. Every single story has a beginning at its end.

The last days before graduation are bad enough, God knows--out of the womb you go, ready or not. The halls rang with the laughter of the girls who were going to be brides in the next week (and widows shortly after)...

All the things I've thought about love are true. It's beautiful and terrible and it doesn't make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings. This is mine.

This is Lucy." She added, almost playfully, "Lucy comes from nothing." I took no offense, and really, I take none now. But I think: No one in this world comes from nothing.

Ah yet, when all is thought and said, The heart still overrules the head; Still what we hope we must believe, And what is given us receive; Must still believe, for still we hope That in a world of larger scope, What here is faithfully begun Will be completed, not undone. My child, we still must think, when we That ampler life together see, Some true result will yet appear Of what we are, together, here.

Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it's everything.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

She knows now that she can do almost anything she wants to—as long as she starts small.

Let princes, against all events, not be without some great person, one or rather more, of military valor, near unto them, for the repressing of seditions in their beginnings. For without that, there useth to be more trepidation in court upon the first breaking out of troubles, than were fit.

When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

I first started rapping when I heard the Sugarhill Gang in 1979, when I was 11 years old in seventh grade.

I don't know how I started rapping. The first I did was at school. I tried writing one. I liked it. People started to like it. It was what I wanted to do.

I started rapping when I was 18-19.

We know too little about how life began on Earth to lay confident odds. It may have involved a fluke so rare that it happened only once in the entire galaxy. On the other hand, it may have been almost inevitable, given the right environment.