Quotes About Beginnings

He seemed to believe that from such humble, inert elements as flour, shortening, and drab little envelopes of yeast, life itself could be produced.

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.

At first, I didn't really use anything in the social network world. I was so anti-social network, which is kind of ironic. I actually first started on a chat room on my fan site.

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

I started skating when I was five years old in Pasadena, California.

I started skating when I was 2 years old because of my older sister Natasha was a skater, and I wanted to be just like her!

I started skating when I was six years old.

I began skating when I was 3. It was during 2002, the year the Olympics were held in Salt Lake City.

We were the best of friends. We monkeyed around recording sketches and jingles in George's bedroom. On November 5, 1979, I phoned George and said 'It's now or never.' Then we formed our first band.

...if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.

You are the one, I think I'm in love... life has begun.

Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known?

Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings.

Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, who in 1524, aged not quite sixteen, arrived in Vicenza

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

Let us then take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the Nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the Infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed. Blaise Pascal, Pensées No. 72

Zhenya Luvers was born and grew up in Perm.

Our beginnings never know our ends.

Beginnings are always hard.

All stories end when they have returned to their beginnings.