Famous quotes containing the word beginning:
“As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this wayperhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this waythey do things that waywhat is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.”
—Helen M. Cam (18851968)
“I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of mens beginning to redeem themselves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places: all this is but the beginning of the birth pangs.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 24:7,8.