Quotes About Beginnings

Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.

When Billy Ray and I first got married, we lived in an A-frame house in Kentucky, and I didn't even know you could get drapes made - I used to get drapes from Dillard's. Once I hired a designer to help decorate that house was when I discovered a passion for designing.

Any person who has reached an elite level has had to start somewhere, and it's all from grass-roots level.

When I went to Real Madrid, I was only 18 or 19 years old. It was my first year as a professional footballer. I was very young.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

I would say when I was 9 or 10 I started doing gospel choir, and I was with them for about two years.

My wife and I started dating in 11th grade.

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

My first audition ever was for 'Bye Bye Birdie' in fifth grade.

When I came to Chennai from Coimbatore after my graduation, looking for acting chances, it was for dubbing that I was first tried.

If it wasn't for 'Byker Grove' we wouldn't be where we are today.

I never really thought about acting when I was little; I was just getting a haircut at a salon when I was 10, and a woman approached my mom about putting me forward for an audition!

People forget that even the biggest hit shows, like 'Hamilton,' started off-Broadway.

I was 7 years old and my dad gave me a wooden tennis racket.

I think that my humble beginnings were very deliberate, and I'm grateful for them because I'm not sure I would see my achievements the same way if they were handed to me. I'm not sure my work ethic would be the same.

I think I was three or four when I first rode and four when I first crashed.

I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

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.

When we first started playing shows, we were all 17. Everybody started somewhere. There were guys throwing shows in condemned houses and backyards just for the love of music and for the love of what bands were standing for.

Cricket came about for me when my dad started throwing plastic balls to me at home. I was four or five.

I was 2 years old and already swinging bats and throwing balls.

Thus spring begins: old stupidities repeated, new errs invented

I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. … The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. That's genius.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.