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Quotes About Beginnings

Don't think you have no chance in life because you have no capital to begin with. Most of the rich men of to-day began poor. The chances are you would be ruined if you had capital.
~ Orison Swett Marden
That's the difference between life and art, of course. Life has no frames, no curtains, no beginnings and no endings.
~ Orson Scott Card
Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.
~ Confucius
Too soon old and too late smart. You dont know anything till it gets here. You told me once that maybe the end of the road has nothing to do with the road. Maybe it doesnt even know there's been a road. You ready?
~ Cormac McCarthy
Come ultime parole direi che non sono stato infelice." "Ma non possiedi nulla." "Forse gli ultimi saranno i primi." "Tu ci credi?" "No." "A che cosa credi?" "Credo che gli ultimi e i primi soffrono allo stesso modo. Pari passu. Non è solo nelle tenebre della notte che tutte le anime sono una sola.
~ Cormac McCarthy
he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all. By
~ Cormac McCarthy
John Grady, de pie ante la ventana del café vacío, observando las actividades de la plaza, dijo que era bueno que Dios ocultase las verdades de la vida a los jóvenes cuando empezaban pues de otro modo no tendrían ánimos para empezar.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activities in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activities in the square and he said that it was good the God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Es ist immer dasselbe mit den gefährlichen Abenteuern, sie beginnen ganz harmlos.
~ Cornelia Funke
Maybe my homesickness was a form of prescience because when I look back, it's the circumstances of this very car ride that I recognize as irretrievable: the experience of driving nowhere in particular with my sister, both of us seventeen years old, the open windows causing our hair to blow wildly; that feeling of being unencumbered; that confidence that our futures would inform the way we wanted them to and our real lives were just beginning.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
We can alter an individual's knowledge about the world. Indeed, profound social change often begins in shifts in understanding the world.
~ Dacher Keltner
One of the attractions of moving away into te life of employment, I think, is being disconnected and free, unbothered by membership. It is a life of beginnings without memories, but i is a life too that ends without being remembered.
~ Wendell Berry
My solo three-month hike on the Pacific Crest Trail had many beginnings. There was the first, flip decision to do it, followed by the second, more serious decision to actually do it, and then the long third beginning, composed of weeks of shopping and packing and preparing to do it. There was the quitting my job as a waitress and finalizing my divorce and selling almost everything I owned and saying goodbye to my friends and visiting my mother's grave one last time.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Our parents are the primal source. We make our own lives, but our origin stories are theirs. They go back with us to the beginning of time.
~ Cheryl Strayed
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.
~ Hal Borland
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom but 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 forth faith rather than reason.
~ Hal Borland
Always remember, every success story begins with a START. Anyone can desire but there are few who DESERVE.
~ Harsh Malik
Because all endings have a certain a certain amount of pain, just as all beginnings contain a certain amount of joy.
~ Heather Brewer
Because all endings have a certain amount of pain, just as all beginnings contain a certain amount of joy.
~ Heather Brewer
Friendship is where the best stories begin.
~ Heather Vogel Frederick
I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.
~ Laurie Lee
There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one. —Hilary Mantel
~ Lawrence Freedman
The thing about endings is, they can begin quietly enough. That's how they sneak up on you.
~ Jane Yolen