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Quotes About Beginnings

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
~ Lao Tzu
Hey, Dinky …, sooner or later you're going to have to make a commitment to someone. Which means making a commitment to yourself. And a commitment to the notion that our shitty beginnings don't have to cripple us for life.
~ Larry Kramer
One couldn't spend one's entire life waiting for life to start.
~ Laura Lee Guhrke
The firs day of high school is bullshit anyways. It's supposed to be about new beginnings, but really all it does is wreck your life. And set you up for failure. And make you realize everything is completely and totally fucked.
~ Lauren Barnholdt
By six-thirty, the sun was officially on the rise, it was pretty. I suppose, if you liked that sort of thing. Fresh starts, new beginnings, the warming rays of hope.
~ Lauren Myracle
How had it begun? Like everything: with mothers and fathers. Because of Lydia's mother and father, because of her mother's and father's mothers and fathers.
~ Celeste Ng
Life begins at night
~ Charlaine Harris
At the wondrous moment you were born, as you took your first breath, a great celebration was held in the heavens and twelve magnificent gifts were granted to you.
~ Charlene Costanzo
Governor Bradford is said to have attributed the plague to "the good hand of God," which "favored our beginnings" by "sweeping away great multitudes of the natives Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that he might make room for us.
~ Charles C. Mann
All these things, and a thousand like them, came to pass in and close upon the dear old year one
~ Charles Dickens
Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.
~ Charles Fort
I love the quiet calmness before the world is just waking up. That amazing moment before the chaos of the day starts. Mornings are magical.
~ Keith Wynn, @ravens_rhapsody
I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
~ W. C. Fields, 1940
thought he knew how to begin. "After you kids came along," he told her, "your mother said something I didn't really understand. She said, 'I look at the babies and see myself as they'll remember me.
~ Greg Keyes
Rivers do usually begin in almost imperceptible ways. The great events and changes of the world under heaven also frequently start that way, their origins recognized only by those troubling themselves to look back.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
WHERE CHAOS BEGINS, classical science stops.
~ James Gleick
When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully. When the day has ended, dare to feel as you've done your best. Dare to be the best you can – At all times, Dare to be!
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is a mystery, today is where it all begins.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
~ Iman
I worked at this place called Water World; it was a waterslide park. My brother and my dad framed my first paycheck from this place - which was for $0.00 dollars - because I didn't even make enough to cover the cost of my uniform!
~ Summer Sanders
The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe. So we're gonna see the snapshot of when stars started. When galaxies started. The very first moments of the universe. And my bet? There's gonna be some big surprises.
~ John M. Grunsfeld
My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.
~ James Cronin
Hit the reset button. Whatever happened yesterday, forget about it. Get a new perspective. Today is a new day. Fresh start, begins now.
~ Germany Kent
The tallest trees sometimes grow from the smallest seeds.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo