Colum McCann Quotes

I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.

Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe.

Just think of yourself as starting from zero every time. That's what I do with every new role. I'm at zero, and I'm going to do the work.

You can make a fresh start with your final breath.

We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.

If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.

...New Beginning to the same old story

Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.

I want to be in a position where I get to start off fresh. I don't have any preconceived notion of how I should feel.

Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes.

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

You can't live on last year, you can't live on the year before. I can't bring in my 13 Pro Bowls in the locker room and say, look at me. No. That is gone. That is the best thing about the game of football is that everybody starts over.

It is a good thing to start fresh.

With me, everybody I meet always has a clean slate.

As far as I'm concerned, my life is just beginning. It's never too late to start over, so this is what I've been doing.

So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!

If I can be an example of getting sober, then I can be an example for starting over

I like to approach every day like it's my first, so this morning when I woke up I covered my body with red gelatin.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?

You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.

It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.

Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.

America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

From every ending comes a new beginning.