quotations about beginning
Maybe it was a storybook beginning.
DANIEL NAYERI
Another Faust
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
There is an old saying "well begun is half done"--'tis a bad one. I would use instead--Not begun at all 'til half done.
JOHN KEATS
letter to Benjamin Robert Haydon, May 10-11, 1817
The beginning is the end
Keeps coming round again
HOW TO DESTROY ANGELS
"The Loop Closes"
The beginning is always so fine!! But decay soon follows. A degeneration into the tired old situation. The rot sets in ... there is only the beauty of the start!
JHONEN VASQUEZ
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
Every thing must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.
MARY SHELLEY
Frankenstein
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
CARL BARD
attributed, Your Daily Walk with the Great Minds
So play the game "Existence" to the end
Of the beginning, of the beginning
THE BEATLES
"Tomorrow Never Knows"
A beginning is that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity, but after which something naturally is or comes to be.
ARISTOTLE
Poetics