quotations about beginning
There is first of all the problem of the opening, namely, how to get us from where we are, which is, as yet, nowhere, to the far bank. It is a simple bridging problem, a problem of knocking together a bridge. People solve such problems every day. They solve them, and having solved them push on.
J. M. COETZEE
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Elizabeth Costello
The loftiest towers rise from the ground.
CHINESE PROVERB
We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key--could we but find it--to all we later become.
JAMES BALDWIN
Notes of a Native Son
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
PLATO
The Republic
It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.
TOM STOPPARD
Arcadia
The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUS
De Rerum Natura
Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
"Elegiac Verse"
That which has a beginning will surely have an end.
JOSEPH SMITH
An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton
In my beginning is my end.
T.S. ELIOT
"East Coker," Four Quartets
And so we turn the page over
To think of starting. This is all there is.
JOHN ASHBERY
"Frontispiece"
Every moment is a fresh beginning.
T. S. ELIOT
The Cocktail Party
You are full of unshaped dreams
You are laden with beginnings
LOLA RIDGE
"Wind in the Alleys"
Songbird, rebirth, unearth creature / Submerge from hurt, pain, broken pieces / Emergency, heartbeat increases / Rise up lotus, rise, this is the beginning.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA
"Lotus Intro"
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H.G. WELLS
The Discovery of the Future
I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.
DANIEL DEFOE
Robinson Crusoe
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
KAMI GARCIA
Beautiful Darkness
The beginning is the end
Keeps coming round again
HOW TO DESTROY ANGELS
"The Loop Closes"
Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.
SARAH DESSEN
What Happened to Goodbye
Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
EURIPIDES
Aeolus [fragment]