Beginning

Famous quotes containing the word beginning:

“What we call birth
Is but a beginning to be something else
Than what we were before; and when we cease
To be that something, then we call it death.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow;
And then I must scrub and bake and sweep
Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep;
And the young lie long and dream in their bed....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“As the proverb says, “a good beginning is half the business” and “to have begun well” is praised by all.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)