"The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy."

Beginning, Beginnings

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"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career."

William Joyce, American Author

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"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."

Lewis Carroll, English Author

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"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers."

Robert Kirkman, American Writer

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"Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause."

Harry Vardon, English Athlete

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"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."

"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."

"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."

"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"

"I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career."

"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."

"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."

"The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers."

"Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else."

"More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause."

Explore more quotes by John Galsworthy

"A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it."

"Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed."

"Beginnings are always messy."

"There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible."

"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else."

"When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different."

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."

"One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes."

"The French cook; we open tins."

"Headlines twice the size of the events."