Famous quotes containing the word beginning:
“The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.”
—Plato (c. 427347 B.C.)
“History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning of things, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,when did burdock and plantain sprout first?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“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)