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Quotes About Beginnings

I have no name: I am but two days old.
~ William Blake
Starting small can help you overcome dread.
~ Chip Heath
Change begins at the level of individual decisions and behaviors, but that's a hard place to start because that's where the friction is.
~ Chip Heath
to have faith—that a lover would be constant and life clement—this did require courage in a city more disposed to beginnings than safe continuations.
~ Chris Cleave
It's the fate of many propositions," Terry said, "to begin as heresies and end as truths. I read that somewhere, anyway.
~ Christopher Buckley
While telling her I realised that the story of her is much more to do with how she is ended than how she began.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
The so-called inseparable cohesions of national interests vanish away as soon as you draw near to examine them. There are individual interests and a general interest, those two only. When you say "I," it means "I"; when you say "We," it means Man. So long as a single and identical Republic does not cover the world, all national liberations can only be beginnings and signals!
~ Henri Barbusse
Qué grandes son las cosas en los comienzos! Nunca en los principios hubo pequeñeces...
~ Henri Barbusse
You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.
~ Henry Ford
Every advance begins in a small way and with the individual.
~ Henry Ford
The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
~ Henry S. Hoskins
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
~ Walt Disney
I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.
~ B. B. King
My dad and my brother were more keen on football, but I used to play canvas-ball cricket while at school in Ranchi, and we would have cricket coaching camps in the summer vacations. That's how I started.
~ MS Dhoni
It was the late '70s when my parents met. My dad was a lighting director for a soap opera, and my mom was a temp at the studio. They moved into a house in The Valley in L.A., to a neighborhood that was leafy and affordable.
~ Meghan Markle
Based on such evidence, archaeologists infer that chiefdoms began to arise locally by around 5500 BC.
~ Jared Diamond
Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of the world.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Then, turning toward me, he said to me, My child, in almost everything the beginnings are rough; however yours will not be very much so. Be prudent, and seek to please everyone here; at present this is your sole business. For the rest, have courage; we want to take care of you.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.
~ Cesare Pavese
I began playing football on the streets.
~ Gabriel Jesus
We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle.
~ Bulent Ecevit
The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
~ Damon Lindelof
When the game is over it is really just beginning.
~ Jerry Kramer