Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle might light a thousand, so the light here [in Plymouth Colony] kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.
It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.
You long for success? Start at the bottom; dig down.
When we first began, we didn't have any hits.
The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.
The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.
I'll start with small things.
Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
I started comedy in, like, 1998.
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.
At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.
Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings.
Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
For my fifth birthday, I got a small tennis racket. That's how I started.
To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.
Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives’ tale blues riff begins with “Woke up this mornin’. . . .
Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings.
God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.
When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play.
At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.
