#beginnings

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March) ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#beginnings #end #fresh-start #new-leaf #start-over

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#death #poetry #death

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#internet #still #very

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#boston #camera #first #half #i

We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years. ↗

— Trisha Goddard

#beginnings #eyes #five #get #got

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#arrive #beginnings #being #common #endings

The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#also #beginnings #came #eight #father

Good seasons start with good beginnings. ↗

— Sparky Anderson

#good #seasons #start

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that. ↗

— John Barton

#beginnings #get #i #like #many

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#endings #human #undertakings