Quotes About Beginnings

You may be told that the legal decisions lead the changes, that judges and lawmakers lead the culture in those theaters called courtrooms, but they only ratify change. They are almost never where change begins, only where it ends up, for most changes travel from the edges to the center.

He had come from the humblest of backgrounds, born in a cottage he had built with his own hands

The artist child must begin by crawling. Baby steps will follow and there will be falls—yecchy first paintings, beginning films that look like unedited home movies, first poems that would shame a greeting card.

A great man may commence life in a hovel.

Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

We must leave these beginnings, beings, believings- man, what are you growing?

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started.

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.

I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid £75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.

There is something to be said for waking up every morning and seeing the sun.

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.

We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.

I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early.

Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.

My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness, ' as he would call it.

All great things have small beginnings.

Start small and dream big.

By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

All babies are Buddha babies.

You think you're enlightened. But as my lama said, when you realize the intrinsic nature of the mind, then you start to meditate. It's not the end, it's the beginning.