Beginning

Famous quotes containing the word beginning:

    “In the beginning was the secret brain.
    The brain was celled and soldered in the thought”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “The high plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them. Like Jacob’s angel, the region requires that you wrestle with it before it bestows a blessing.”
    —Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)

    “The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind—the mind of a fighter—in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man’s first beginning.”
    —Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)