Beginnings Quotes

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
Henry David Thoreau

Best, Evil, Avoid

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

Else, Nation, Against

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
Baltasar Gracian

Often, Leave, Common

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
Anna Quindlen

Life, Through, Middle

From the end spring new beginnings.
Pliny the Elder

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.
Muriel Rukeyser

Blessing, Seed, Seeds

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.
Martin Scorsese

Cannot, Between, Matter

I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything!
Katy Perry

Humble, Everything, Worked

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
John Galsworthy

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
William Throsby Bridges

Attention, Within, Begin

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
Titus Livius

Humble, Greatness, Since

I think we may be seeing the beginnings of a resurgence of civic-mindedness in this country. Hopefully the younger generations, which came out in record numbers during the last presidential election, will pass their enthusiasm on to their children.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Children, May, Country

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.
Russell Baker

Death, President, Takes

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
Robert Collier

Simple, Instrument, Tool

Beginnings are always messy.
John Galsworthy

It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being.
David Maraniss

Humble, Human, Hard

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.
Stevie Wonder

Time, Remember, Two

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
Gustav Mahler

Music, Small, Space

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.
Jimmy Wales

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
Lev Grossman

Books, Endings, Defined

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.
Tom Waits

Morning, Off, Write

I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had.
Paula Abdul

Fun, Girl, Forget

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.
Hu Shih

Strange, Social, Days

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland

Faith, Time, Wisdom

I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
Candace Bushnell

Children, Book, Short

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.
Chaim Potok

Life, Religious, Early

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.
Meghan O'Rourke

Love, Moment, Talk

I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.
Clay Aiken

Control, Sometimes, Might

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.
John Barton

Short, Write, Read

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.
Norman Spinrad

History, Science, Child

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