Beginnings Quotes
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Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning.
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The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes. It was from facing this vast hardness that the boy's mouth had become so bitter; because he felt that men were too weak to make any mark here, that the land wanted to be let alone, to preserve its own fierce strength, its peculiar, savage kind of beauty, its uninterrupted mournfulness.
willa cather— Part I, Ch. 1
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest, where all human things... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.
— Edith Hamilton The Greek Way (1930) Ch. 1
By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art,
Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow:
Thus fishes first to shipping did impart,
Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.
— Annus Mirabilis (means "The Year of Wonders"), stanza 155 (1667)
These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
john locke— 1690 Essay Concerning Human Understanding, bk.2, pt.1, section 4.
Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.
william bradford— Of Plymouth Plantation, Chapter 21 (1620-1647)
I do not know why journalists insist on calling their stuff "pieces", when they are in fact little entities, attempting to have beginnings, middles and endings.
james cameron— The Best of Cameron (Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1981) p. 49. ISBN 0450048810.
All beginnings are involuntary.
fernando pessoa— Original: Todo começo é involuntário.
— Poem "O Conde D. Henrique", verse 1
God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.
john polkinghorne— page 51. (Quarks, Chaos & Christianity (1995))
In conclusion I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country. Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy.
— Inaugural Address (March 5, 1849)
We can't forget the fact that although at a particular point in time we never found any WMD down there, he clearly had had WMD. He clearly had had the beginnings of a nuclear program.
fred thompson— Des Moines Register, October 1, 2007
One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another.
leonardo da vinci— "Of fire" (XX Humorous Writings)
Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will’d, Whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, Whose vague resolves never have been fulfill’d; For whom each year we see Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new; Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day Ah! do not we, wanderer! await it too?
Matthew Arnold— St. 18. (The Scholar Gypsy (1853))
“My dear, It’s who first thought the thought. You’re searching, Joe, For things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings there are no such things. There are only middles.
robert frost— Mountain Interval (1920), 5. In the Home Stretch, Line 187-192
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
john galsworthy— Ch. 1 (Over the River (1933))
New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.
robert graves— "Marigolds" (Fairies and Fusiliers (1917))
All this, I said, just as today was the case with the beginnings of wireless, would be of no more service to man than as an escape from himself and his true aims, and a means of surrounding himself with an ever closer mesh of distractions and useless activities.
hermann hesse— p. 103 (Steppenwolf (1927))
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.
christopher hitchens— BBC Newsnight Special: Christopher Hitchens, 29 November 2010 YouTube video
One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Franz Kafka— 13
Grosseteste was deeply concerned with the detailed investigation of natural phenomena. It was the inspiration of this attitude of mind, together with Grosseteste's emphasis on the importance of mathematics, that was perhaps his chief legacy to thinkers in fourteenth-century Oxford who were developing the beginnings of a mathematical physics.
— Neil Lewis, "Robert Grosseteste" Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2007, 2013)
There is little doubt that [all of India ’s major cities], owe much to the beginnings of modern progress that Madras gave the rest of the subcontinent ... Madras, till the 1760s, lay the foundation on which modern India has grown.
— S. Muthiah of Madras Musings on retaining the name of Madras instead of changing it to Chennai, in p.54
Modern Delhi began with the slow revival of the city under British domination. During the ‘Delhi Renaissance’, approximately 1830 to the outbreak of uprising of 1857, Delhi exhibited the beginnings of a cultural ferment; Western technology and idea entered the city and supported each other.
— Rakesh Kumar Bhatt, in History and Development of Libraries in India, P.175
I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.
— To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2014, p. 62)
I do not know why journalists insist on calling their stuff "pieces", when they are in fact little entities, attempting to have beginnings, middles and endings.
— The Best of Cameron (Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1981) p. 49. ISBN 0450048810.
There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd, The which observed, a man may prophesy With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II (c. 1597-99), Act III, scene 1, line 80
By viewing nature, nature's handmaid, art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow; Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.
john dryden— John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, Stanza 155
Resist beginnings; the prescription comes too late when the disease has gained strength by long delays.
— Remedia Amoris (The Cure for Love), 91.
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
— Praefatio, sec. 4
"Maria" There is someone I should love. At times I sustain deep, deep wounds. But, by the person I should love, they are all healed. "Maria" Everyone is crying. "Maria" But I want to believe. "Maria" So I'm praying now that this is my final love. beginnings come at random, but endings always have a reason.
ayumi hamasaki— M (I am...)
