Beginning Quotes
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...from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.)
Mark Twain
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We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.
Jerry Only
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Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.
Iain Pears
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You just have to know your story from the beginning. You have to know what you're going for and be honest with people about that. Don't sit there and say you're gonna be a DIY punk band for your whole life and then move on to arenas; you can't do that because then people don't trust you anymore.
Brian Fallon
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I started writing 'Cod' at a time when people were first beginning to take an interest in the problem of fisheries because the Grand Banks had closed.
Mark Kurlansky
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Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. 'Where did the totality of reality come from?' 'Did time have a beginning?'
Brian Greene
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My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young.
Eric Kandel
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There is neither source nor end, for all things are in the Center of Time. As all the stars may be reflected in a round raindrop falling in the night: so too do all the stars reflect the raindrop. There is neither darkness nor death, for all things are, in the Light of the Moment, and their end and their beginning are one.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I wanted to be on stage. That was kind of my plan as an actress in the beginning.
Lauren Ambrose
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Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.
H. G. Wells
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Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.
Plato
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President Obama is more and more beginning to look like the hypocrite-in-chief when it comes to the war on terrorism. All sorts of things that he criticized the president for, he's actually continued and even extended. This drone attack program, he's got it at the highest level ever.
John Fleming
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For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
Rachel Carson
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You have no beginning of time. It's always been there.
Neil Turok
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From every ending comes a new beginning.
Lurlene McDaniel
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I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing.
Jack White The White Stripes
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The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.
Plato
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The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.
Adam Sandler
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Most of the time, particularly with this record, 'The Light of the Sun,' I really just been standing in front of a microphone and blacking out musically, you know. I'd come back a couple hours later and there's six songs from beginning to end, you know? I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know how I'm going to say it.
Jill Scott
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I never outline my novels before I write. I do have a vague sense of beginning, middle, and end at the outset of each book, but for me, writing has always been a very character-driven process.
Emily Giffin
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I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.
John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
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In the beginning, my first clients were Oprah, Whoopi Goldberg, and all different types of women.
Christian Siriano
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Even in the very beginning when she would bump into George Valentine and people would start taking pictures of her, she never thought, 'I'm with George Valentine. I need to get a picture with him.' She's like 'oh that's funny. Everyone's taking pictures!'
Berenice Bejo