Quotes about Beginnings

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

a rival line, on his small beginnings out at the dam. Even his tools should be of wood and leather and gut, materials the insects would eat when one day he no longer needed them.

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.

Late October Carefully the leaves of autumn sprinkle down the tinny sound of little dyings and skies sated of ruddy sunsets of roseate dawns roil ceaselessly in cobweb greys and turn to black for comfort. Only lovers see the fall a signal end to endings a gruffish gesture alerting those who will not be alarmed that we begin to stop in order to begin again.

beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.