Begin At The Beginning Quotes

#1. Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

Lewis Carroll

#2. Why would you save me?
Because you, mouse, can tell Gregory a story. Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.'
- A Tale of Despereaux, Kate Dicamillo - P. 81

Kate DiCamillo

#3. if you are to begin at the beginning of the end, do not wait till the end before you begin. Time and timing is an essential accoutrement in the journey of life.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#4. To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.

Dylan Thomas

#5. Let's begin at the beginning. It's our only choice, it turns out.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#6. I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

John Corigliano

#7. There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

C.S. Forester

#8. When you begin at the beginning, any progress you make is yours.

Kelly Williams Brown

#9. Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

Kate DiCamillo

#10. Begin at the beginning, go on until the end, then stop.

Mark Twain

#11. Begin at the beginning of Genesis, and read to the end of the Revelations, and see if you can find, that there were ever any that trusted in the Lord, and were confounded.

John Bunyan

#12. Begin at the beginning, go on until you reach the end, and then stop.

Larry M. Harris

#13. I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

Diana Gabaldon

#14. Everything has to do with everything else - you know that by now. So begin at the beginning, and it will lead to the end.

Toby Neal

#15. I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

Philip Roth

#17. Begin at the beginning as you understood it, proceed through the middle, continue to the end, and then stop, said Master Li, and he sauntered out to get drunk ...

Barry Hughart

#18. Perhaps,' she said, leaning forward a little, 'you will tell me your name. If we are to be friends' - she smiled her grave smile - 'as I hope we are, we had better begin at the beginning.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#19. To begin at the beginning.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#20. From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#21. When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.

Marcus Buckingham

#22. If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

Mark Twain

#23. The fog lifted in the evening and a blue-black band at the horizon marked the end of the sea and the beginning of thought. Where does a beginning begin when nothing has gone on before?

Gretel Ehrlich

#24. There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go
straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there.

A.A. Milne

#25. The end of THE END is the best place to begin THE END, because if you read THE END from the beginning of the beginning of THE END to the end of the end of THE END, you will arrive at the end.

Lemony Snicket

#26. The end of the World depends on us. True friendship is the end of the World, the beginning of our play together. The secret is to begin at the end.

Anonymous

#27. At the very beginning when I begin writing a poem I try not to think of the audience or anyone at all except for trying to get at the very center of what is driving that poem. In a way it's like analyzing myself.

Rita Dove

#28. She felt that if only one could begin things at the beginning, one might see more clearly upon what foundations they now rest.

Virginia Woolf

#29. Okay, I said. But remember, you can't fix
everything in the world for everybody.
"However," said Ricky, "you can't do
anything at all unless you begin. Haven't
I heard you say that once or twice, or
maybe a hundred times?

Mary Oliver

#30. At the beginning of a new year, many people have nothing better to do than to make a list of bad deeds and resolve from now on - how many such "from-now-ons" have there already been! - to begin with better intentions, but they are still stuck in the middle of their paganism.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#31. I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.

Rudolf Nureyev

#32. To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

Philip Guston

#33. An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art.
The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.

Louis Sullivan

#34. However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning.

Soren Kierkegaard

#35. We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation.

Marsha Blackburn

#36. Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.

Billy Collins

#37. When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#38. And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations of their words; which settling of significations, they call definitions, and place them in the beginning of their reckoning.

Thomas Hobbes

#39. An ending is only happening because at some point it was a beginning. And if an ending is dependent upon a beginning, I would be well advised to focus on the miracle of beginnings verses the pain of endings.

Craig D. Lounsbrough