Beginning

Famous quotes containing the word beginning:

    The hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or, again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
    Carson McCullers (1917–1967)

    I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men’s beginning to redeem themselves.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    What we call the beginning is often the end
    And to make an end is to make a beginning.
    The end is where we start from.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)