Beginning

Famous quotes containing the word beginning:

    “Before the beginning of years
    There came to the making of man
    Time, with a gift of tears;
    Grief, with a glass that ran;”
    —A.C. (Algernon Charles)

    “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)

    “I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I’ll be all right; I’ve got a few veg.”
    —Margaret Drabble (b. 1939)