Beginning Quotes - page 2

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. (Florence Nightingale)
In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been wisely regarded as a bad move. View quote
Douglas Adams
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. View quote
André Gide
There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning. View quote
Pablo Picasso
The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves. View quote
Eric Hoffer
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life. View quote
Federico Fellini
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The future is always beginning now. View quote
Mark Strand
A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know. View quote
Bolesław Prus
For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, As fire is of light. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day. (Thornton Wilder)
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. View quote
Edward Gibbon
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. View quote
Leonard Nimoy
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. View quote
Bruce Lee
Where is the beginning of the end that comes at the end of the beginning? View quote
Kozma Prutkov
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. View quote
John Ruskin
I've been killing characters my entire career, maybe I'm just a bloody minded bastard, I don't know, [but] when my characters are in danger, I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps. View quote
George R. R. Martin
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. View quote
Gertrude Stein
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. View quote
Coretta Scott King
In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful. View quote
Sherwood Anderson
We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door. (Djuna Barnes)
Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem. View quote
Elizabeth Bowen
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. View quote
Og Mandino
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. View quote
Mother Teresa
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one. View quote
Oscar Wilde