Quotes About Beginnings

My introduction to sports was through baseball. That's all I knew.

All the best musicians started out in church; Jesus invented rock 'n' roll.

Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

Kerr is great, but I started my career under Mark Jackson, so there's no hard feelings there.

When I was 18 at the Santa Ana River Jetty is where I put my first board in the water that I ever got from Joe Quigg. I was just riding the whitewater in, and I was just in heaven.

Here's the thing: I started with Johnny Rodz at his school when I was very young. I never really got to see what was out there.

I'm happy when children join weightlifting and they get curious because that's how I started.

When I was six, I joined an amateur club called VK Tielrode in Belgium where I lived.

There is surely no greater wisdom, than well to time the beginnings, and onsets, of things.

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

I had the whole road to myself, for no one was yet stirring, and I walked on, with a slouching, dogged gait. The gray shooting-jacket was on my back, and from the end of my brother's rifle hung a small bundle of my clothes. My fingers worked moodily at the stock and trigger, and I thought that this indeed was the way to begin life, with a gun in your hand!

Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.

My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born.

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age. I had my kids while I was in utero.

Modeling was something I wanted to try from a really young age.

You don't have to try to get a job and go through set steps before you start a career or start your life. That's what I want young girls to know - you can do anything you want. Just start.

I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long novel, and it's so long that I get confused and sort of tread water sometimes. But there's definitely a goal to it. People who just dismiss it as shallow, that's their prerogative, but it's not really my intent.

I was born in the summer of 1970, the last of five boys stretched over eight years. My parents were a struggling young couple who had been married one afternoon under a shade tree by a preacher without a church. No guests or fancy dress, just the two of them, lost in love, and the preacher taking a break from working on a house.

'One Tree Hill' gave me my first shot into acting, and they gave me the biggest chance, and that's something that I'll always respect and be grateful for.

Know this: If you are afraid of starting over, it means you have not yet begun.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

a lot of people confuse that story with Apple's, saying that we started Apple in a garage. Not true. HP started in a garage, true. But in the case of Apple, I worked in my room at my apartment and Steve worked in his bedroom in his parents' house. We only did the very last part of assembly in his garage