Quotes About Commencement

The explanatory panel adds that because the Temple of the Tranquil Seas was "the former site of negotiating the Treaty of Nanjing, the first unequal treaty of modern China, [it] has become a symbol of the commencement of China's modern history.

Everything started as nothing.

Starting is good. You can't get anywhere at all if you never start.

More often than not, what you are searching for will only be gained through beginning.

Begin at the beginning.' Very well, if we are to have a telling, let's make it a proper one.

Of Beginnings and the Names of Things S

the first course was served:

At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.

Somehow, without finding or fixing any words to it, the next part of our story had begun.

He is not only its omega but also its alpha, and he is and can be its omega only as he is its alpha."1