Quotes About Beginnings

Everything I make starts very personally.

My relationship with God and my parents, that's what keeps me together. I know that everything could end as soon as it starts.

Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

I thought I would be a dramatic actor - everyone starts that way.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

Everybody starts off in the same place going into sport; you don't go into any sport being good at it.

I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn't be in 'The Station Agent' if she hadn't.

In 1974 when I was 22 years old, I was working for $95 a week at WSPB, which was an Atlanta Braves-affiliated AM radio station in Sarasota, Florida. Fresh out of Northwestern University, I was the news director at the station, and my main bread and butter was to handle updates during the morning and afternoon drive times.

At 14, I began working in radio. I ran the board at a little radio station in Dallas.

I've stayed put in the neighborhood where I first got my start and will never forget the people that believed in me and gave me my first chance.

I think now I've established myself as a director, but starting out, I'd be foolish to think that every opportunity that came after 'The Wonder Years' didn't stem from 'The Wonder Years.' So I owe so much of everything for that show.

1976, I was all of 18, and when I stepped into the world of business, the capital I had in my hand was 20,000 rupees.

When I was younger, I actually stepped foot in a ring for the first time at 8 years old because of my dad.

I started playing football in a school back in Sao Vicente when I was five years old, going towards six. Those were my first steps, among those kids, and then I kept going.

My first steps in football came thanks to my big brother who taught me the game.

I'm awfully interested in how big things begin. You know how it is; you're twenty-one or twenty-two and you make some decisions. . . then whissh! you're seventy. You've been a lawyer for fifty years and that white-haired lady by your side has eaten over 50,000 meals with you. How do such things begin?

I don't watch the beginnings of many series; I don't know why - maybe because I'm normally working.

Ireland's always been good to us. We always get nostalgic when we play there because it was the very first proper show we did.

Something that really helps when it comes to writing songs is you start to notice how children learn and how we all had to learn in the first place, starting from the ground up. It gives you a new perspective.

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.'