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Quotes About Beginnings

La jeunesse est un temps pendant lequel les conventions sont et doivent être mal comprises : ou aveuglément combattues, ou aveuglément obéies. On ne peut pas concevoir, dans les commencements de la vie réfléchie, que seules les décisions arbitraires permettent à l'homme de fonder quoi que ce soit : langage, sociétés, connaissances, œuvres d'art.
~ Paul Valery
Miwanzo is the word in Swahili for "beginnings." But sometimes everything has to end first and the bottom drop out and every light fizzle and die before a proper beginning can come along.
~ Paula McLain
Beginnings are important, too, darling. You should be patient with life.
~ Paula McLain
Mwanzo inseamna "inceputuri" in swahili. Dar uneori trebuie ca totul mai intai sa se sfarseasca, sa se prabuseasca si toate luminile sa palpaie si sa se stinga inainte sa avem parte de un inceput ca la carte.
~ Paula McLain
Maybe learning to live with the question marks, recognizing that closure does not always occur, is all I really needed to do. I hadn't expected, coming from a world that fights to see life's beginnings in black and white, to be so comforted by a shade of gray. The notion of the water child made sense to me. What I had experienced was not a full life, nor was it a full death, but it was a real loss.
~ Peggy Orenstein
beyond beginnings the earth her many tribes and clans their life songs merge into one chant- - And to each creation the heartline trail is etched in delicate memory pattern webs so intricate in a unity of day into night the seasons follow
~ Unknown
Israel's beginnings are mysterious from an archaeological point of view, so we can't be dogmatic about explaining how and when Israel began. But it does seem that a nation eventually called "Israel" probably came on the scene gradually and relatively peacefully.
~ Unknown
From small foundations of hope, empires can be built.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Adam, Seth, Enosh,
~ 1 Chronicles 1:1