Beginning Quotes

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

~ Amity Shlaes

I treat every album as a new beginning, so I'm asking myself, 'What is pop music now? What are people consuming?' and I take these things into effect.

~ Luis Fonsi

I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.

~ Tycho Brahe

Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.

~ François Lelord

What is happiness? Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself.

~ Goldie Hawn

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

~ Lao Tzu

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

~ Henry Adams

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

~ Marguerite Yourcenar

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

~ Arthur Erickson

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

~ Havelock Ellis

Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.

~ Thom Mayne

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

~ Rem Koolhaas

Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know.

~ John Lautner

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

~ Orlando Bloom

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

~ Larry Flynt

Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.

~ Natalie Portman

Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.

~ Little Richard

When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.

~ Laura Chinchilla

Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

~ Rachel True

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

~ Gloria Steinem

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.

~ Joel Osteen

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

~ John Heywood

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

~ George Burns

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

~ Tim Crouch

A good beginning makes a good end.

~ Louis L'amour

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

~ Hannah Arendt

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.

~ Anselm Kiefer

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

~ Charles Sumner

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

~ Anthony Horowitz

My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it.

~ Tom Stoppard

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

~ Desmond Tutu

I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.

~ Francois Hollande

When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.

~ Eugene Cernan

Sometimes people walk into plays by accident - they don't even know what they're looking at they just think to give it a chance. That can be the beginning of a long friendship.

~ Dylan Baker

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil the devil was a liar from the beginning.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

~ Khalil Gibran

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

~ Frank Herbert

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

~ George Gurdjieff

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

~ André Gide