Beginning Quotes

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I'm beginning to believe it.

~ Clarence Darrow

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.

~ Sebastian Faulks

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.

~ Elon Musk

My parents were in high school when I was born. My mom was 16, my dad was 17. They were kids, at the very beginning of coming into their own and finding themselves.

~ Mahershala Ali

I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.

~ David Cameron

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

~ Wole Soyinka

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

~ Andrew Jackson

Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus the tyranny of government collectivism. She was a loyal supporter and friend of the United States and her terms as prime minister were marked as the beginning of the resurgence of the economy of the United Kingdom.

~ Joseph J. Lhota

I'm not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there's something nice about a guy pulling out a girl's chair and opening the door for her, even if it's just in the beginning.

~ Lauren Conrad

In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'

~ Jack Ma

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.

~ Doris Lessing

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

~ Leonard Nimoy

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

~ Theodore Isaac Rubin

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

~ Richard Le Gallienne

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

~ Terry Pratchett

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

~ Terry Pratchett

In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!

~ Ezra Taft Benson

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

~ Tina Turner

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Everything I hated about L.A. I'm beginning to crave. L.A. is a place where you live behind a gate, you get in a car, your interaction with the public is minimal. I used to hate that.

~ Alec Baldwin

Peace in the Middle East has been on the Obama administration's mind from the beginning. Two days after his inauguration, the president traveled to the State Department to announce the appointment of George Mitchell as his Middle East peace negotiator.

~ Elliott Abrams

So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.

~ Jo Brand

People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.

~ Lauryn Hill

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

~ Fiona Apple

I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of 'The West Wing.' We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.

~ Jason Isaacs

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

~ Adam Sandler

The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.

~ F. W. De Klerk

What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.

~ Erica Jong

Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.

~ Donald Hall

In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F. Diez, and at the beginning of 1852, I received the doctorate for a dissertation on the refrain in Provencal poetry.

~ Paul Heyse

When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.

~ Friedensreich Hundertwasser

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

~ William O. Douglas

Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing them hauls this dispute from the ivory tower into day-to-day decision-making. Is it right to write? The publishing industry is slowly beginning to commit to using sustainably harvested trees.

~ Tristram Stuart

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

~ Roger Tory Peterson

Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

~ Wayne Coyne

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

~ Salvatore J. Cordileone

I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.

~ Christopher Walken

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

~ Newt Gingrich