top of page
Beginning Quotes


"My parents have been really supportive right from the very beginning."


"Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989."


"The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution."


"We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves."


"Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning."


"The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire."


"For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race."


"I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case."


"Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out."


"I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good."


"Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was."


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


"I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82."


"There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written."


"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."


"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."


"I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life."


"I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print."


"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 first stage of any development is infancy."


"I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas's designs and were real proud of what we did. It's a sad situation now."


"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."


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


"It is better to start small than to not start at all because you are waiting to be perfect with your skills. The truth is that you can never achieve perfection in life. Even the greatest man on earth is still incapable of doing so. The ultimate goal is to start now and grow as you go."


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


"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."
bottom of page

