Junot Diaz Quotes

The important thing is somehow to begin.

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

When there is a start to be made, don't step over! Start where you are.

I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin.

The beginning is half of the whole.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day.

Everything starts from a dot.

Linus: Nothing goes on forever. All good things must come to an end... Charlie: When do the good things start?

Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.

Begin where you are. Begin now.

It was not an end, it was a beginging

Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.

The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.

To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.

The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.

Every step starts with a step.

It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?

I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.

How to begin the journey? You need only to take the first step. When? There is always now.

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

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

The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning.