2,726 Quotes About Beginning

We have yet to understand that a loss never remains a loss, for life is too ingenious in design and persistent in intent to let any death be the end of any story.

A whole summer ahead to cross off the calendar, day by day. Like the goddess Siva in the travel books, he saw his hands jump everywhere, pluck sour apples, peaches, and midnight plums. He would be clothed in trees and bushes and rivers. He would freeze, gladly, in the hoarfrosted ice-house door. He would bake, happily, with ten thousand chickens, in Grandma's kitchen.

In the beginning there was the Word. Then we broke it.

When did the world begin and how?"I asked a lamb, a goat, a cow:"What's it all about and why?"I asked a hog as he went by:"Where will the whole thing end, and when?"I asked a duck, a goose, a hen:And I copied all the answers too,A quack, a honk, an oink, a moo.

Once there was, and one day there will be.

Of course, a story always begins with such a coincidence.

My limitations are not where I end. They just inform me as to where God begins.

The thing about finishing a story is that finishing is really only the beginning.

Do not let a late start lead you to a bad finish: the strongest in life can be the weakest in the beginning.