Ann Aguirre Quotes

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

I don't think I ever had a swollen head: I remember where I come from.

Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.

My cradle was a shoe.

Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

Never forgetting from where I came and no matter where I'm headed I promise to stay the same

Everyone who got where he is started where he was.

REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight of the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make.

Me personally, I come from very, very humble beginnings - little, small town in Alabama, you know, staying at my granddaddy house. We really didn't have nothing.

All great things have small beginnings.

The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

Everybody on YouTube starts with zero subscribers. You think of everyone you look up to or have watched for years or whatever, they may seem like this is their life now, but it wasn't always that.

Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest human creations are seen to derive from humble origins and functions, what needs revision is not our esteem for these creations but our notion of nobility.

The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.

The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.

One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.

Mother Teresa was a hero of mine for a long time. I just like the way she took on the world from a very humble place. She has a great quote. When she was leaving her monestary to start Sisters of Charity, she had two pennies. She was asked by a head priest what she could possibly do with two pennies. She said, 'Nothing. But with two pennies and God, I can do anything'.

We are willing to form an army like every independent country though we are still under occupation.

In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them in Shakespeare ... I am not concerned with who wrote the works of Shakespeare ... but I can hardly think it was the Stratford boy. Whoever wrote them had an aristocratic attitude.

I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.