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Beginnings Quotes (page 122)

Walt Whitman quote: "I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in..."
I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened. Walt Whitman
Mitch Albom quote: "It might seem strange to start a book with av ending. But all..."
It might seem strange to start a book with av ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just dont know it at the time Mitch Albom
August Strindberg quote: "I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a..."
I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world. August Strindberg
I mark my years or parenting by the people who stepped in and forced me to abandon my inclination to meddle, micromanage, and coddle, beginning with my children's father, who sat me down and told me in year two that I was going to create a little monster if I continuted to act as though "no" and "I don't love you" were synonomous. A. Whitney Brown
Why is it that only in the very beginnings of a relationship are you aware of the heat coming from inside a person, of the number of inches you would have to move for your shoulders to brush as if it were an accident? Jodi Picoult
The most important result of the encounter [in the preceding anecdote] is the scholar's startling discovery of the roundness of the earth . . . Instinctively realizing the connection between the foreigner's presence, the roundness of the earth, and future changes and upheavals, he finally announces, "Yes, the earth is round, the women will start to think, and as soon as they begin to think, they will become shameless. Azar Nafisi
Mitch Albom quote: "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is, but what..."
Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is, but what happens Earth is just the beginning. Mitch Albom
J. M. Barrie quote: "You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the..."
You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end. J. M. Barrie
But I have to believe that Jesus prefers honesty to anything else. I was saying, "Here's who I am," and that is where most improvement has to begin. Anne Lamott
I sigh therefore I am . . . In the beginning and unto the end was and is the lung: divine afflatus, baby’s first yowl, shaped air of speech, staccato gusts of laughter, exalted airs of song, happy lover’s groan, unhappy lover’s lament, miser’s whine, crone’s croak, illness’s stench, dying whisper, and beyond and beyond the airless, silent void. A sigh isn’t just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can. Salman Rushdie
I can assure you Ernest Hemingway was wrong when he said modern American literature began with Huckleberry Finn. It begins with Moby-Dick, the book that swallowed European civilization whole. E. L. Doctorow
Bertrand Russell quote: "The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to..."
The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination. Bertrand Russell
We feel very strongly that our own wisdom begins where that of the author leaves off and we could like him to provide us with desires... That is the value of reading and is also its inadequacy. To make it into discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it. Marcel Proust
There's a peculiar dichotomy in the nature of almost anyone who calls himself a historian. Such scholars all piously assure us that they're telling us the real truth about what really happened, but if you turn any competent historian over and look at his damp underside, you'll find a storyteller, and you can believe me when I tell you that no storyteller's ever going to tell a story without a few embellishments. Add to that the fact that we've all got assorted political and theological... David Eddings
But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it. C. S. Lewis

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