Beginning

Famous quotes containing the word beginning:

    Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
    Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

    In my beginning is my end. In succession
    Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,
    Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place
    Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
    Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)