Beginning Quotes

“It is only the first step that is difficult.”

“Light is the first of things.”

“Change, my dear. And it seems not a moment too soon.”

“From a little spark may burst a flame.”

“Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow.”

“They threw me off the hay truck about noon.”

“We were just four lads from Manchester. We didn't know what we were doing, but we were doing it with a passion.”

“Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.”

“The initial mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveller reach his starting point in the first place?”

“He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?”

“No-one can say what a new-sown seed will produce, but it may be a splendid flower or a sturdy tree.”

“Every adventure requires a first step.”

“From the egg to the apples.”

“If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”

“When we started I was so shy. I wouldn't even turn to face the audience, I'd just be looking at the floor, you know?”

“The first blush of anything is the best.”

“The expert in anything was once a beginner.”

“The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.”

“One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.”

“Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they slip in under the door, they wrap around you when you're not looking.”