Quotes About Beginnings

I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.

I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar.

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.

The first songs I ever wrote - my first, like, serious offerings - were all written on ukulele. It's always been a part of the way I write for a really long time.

Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

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

Dame Catriona. Det fikk henne til å virke veldig viktig, men hun følte seg bare forvirret. For en utrolig ære å bli tildelt for en som hadde startet livet bakerst i en malt varietevogn.

But home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land. I'm not talking bad about Eloe.

The first time I got into the studio, when I was 17, 18, I got to work with people who were some part of the Cheiron thing, who did all the early Britney Spears stuff, all the early 'NSync stuff.

I did some theatre straight out of school, and it wasn't anything spectacular at all.

Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.

We're like meridians, all beginning and ending in the same place. We spread out from the beginning and go our separate ways, over seas and mountains and islands and deserts, each telling our own story, as different as they could possibly be. But in the end we all converge and our ends are as much the same as our beginnings.

Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet there are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could never have foreseen.

I have started my career with roles where all I needed to mouth was 1 line. That's how I began on TV.

My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'

Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.

I started as a stand-up comedian at charity shows in Mumbai.

Ryan Murphy's 'Hollywood,' about the beginnings of the film industry, made me laugh and cry.

We all have to start somewhere but I don't miss the music industry.

I started in musical theater as a little girl in Houston.

Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.