Top 414 Beginning Quotes

The beginning is always today.
Mary Wollstonecraft
The first thing I do in the morning is prepare fresh juice. I have 15 different recipes, which I drink for 15 days consecutively. Then I repeat the recipes from the beginning for the next 15 days of the month. My juices include fruit, vegetables, leafy greens, and even grains.
Izabel Goulart
I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they’re beginning to toughen up.
Paul Begala
Lots of people want to have written; they don’t want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.
Elizabeth George
I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.
John Poindexter
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.
Gene Cernan
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
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.
Henry Adams
I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It’s like being someone else.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
Nina Simone
I was fired from an NBC sitcom called ‘Friends With Benefits.’ I was wrong for the part from the beginning, didn’t even want to audition, and kept thinking, ‘This isn’t funny at all.’
Patrick J. Adams
The stress on the financial system in the fall of 2007 was significant, but not so significant as to threaten the overall stability of the U.S. economy, although it did lead to the beginning of a recession at the end of 2007.
Ben Bernanke
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
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
Henry Adams
My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never… occupy a place in contemporary literature.
Italo Calvino
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.
Rufus King
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
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn’t have any beginning or any end. He didn’t mean it as a compliment, but it was.
Jackson Pollock
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.
Thornton Wilder
I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays

I’m beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes – and that’s not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
Fairuza Balk
With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music, it is not the same at all. That’s why it seemed so important to me, from the beginning of my career, to invent a grammar, a visual vocabulary adapted to electronic music.
Jean-Michel Jarre
We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn’t play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.
Lana Turner
And that’s what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn’t completely right, and it destroys their futures.
Kevin Williamson
I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, ‘Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?’ You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.
Matthew McConaughey
The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
Lord Byron
From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions.
Bille August
The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning.
Robert Casey
I liked wearing the ’50s wardrobe. It was hard in the beginning. The first shows I wore regular young girl dresses. Then a little later I got to wear the poodle skirts and such.
Erin Moran
Remember tonight… for it is the beginning of always.
Dante Alighieri
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
Anne Sullivan
I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I’m just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren’t fully open yet.
Olivia Thirlby
We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.
George Haven Putnam
In the beginning, when you’re acting in amateur theater and off-Broadway, it was unheard of that anyone else would get your costume. And it was important to get a good costume. You put time into that.
Peter Falk
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
Franz Kafka
I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.
Andre Norton
In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it’s different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It’s hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
Bill Kreutzmann
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
And that’s how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I’m reading, I’m tweaking – putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.
Jean M. Auel
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.
Francois Lelord
To me, the 90’s signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.
Shane West
Strategy is, at some level, the ability to predict what’s going to happen, but it’s also about understanding the context in which it is being formulated. And then you have to be open-minded to the fact that you’re not going to get it right at the very beginning.
Martin Dempsey
From the beginning of this century, for a decade as chief minister of Gujarat and for just over four years as India’s PM, Modi has made an indelible mark in the annals of our history.
Nirmala Sitharaman
I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.
Adam Sandler
What is happiness? Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself.
Goldie Hawn
In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.
Bobby Brown
In the beginning, you know, everyone told me, ‘Your eyes are too small, the nose is too big, you can never be on a magazine cover.’ But, you know what? The big nose is coming with a big personality.
Gisele Bundchen
I want to beat up Michael Fassbender in a movie. I was with him at the beginning of his career when he did an episode of ‘Murphy’s Law.’ He’s a proper superstar and enormously talented, but I want to do a scene where I properly duff him up.
James Nesbitt
Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
Eminem
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
Herodotus
The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
Maggie Gallagher
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the be

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
Umberto Eco
Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year – a small government proposal if ever there was one.
Bill Ayers
I don’t pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.
Lydia Davis
At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard.
Midge Ure