Started From Scratch Quotes

#1. My mother could make something out of nothing - and everything started from scratch.

Anna Pump

#2. People have been making war for thousands of years, but each time it is as if it is the first war ever waged, as if everyone has started from scratch. A

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#3. The first year, I didn't have much capital so I did everything myself. I had to keep my overhead low by learning everything about running a business, from accounting to fixing the gears of my equipment. I really started from scratch.

Li Ka-shing

#4. When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.

Eric San

#5. Some have ideas. You know how old chickens scratch and gabble. That's how the tales started, all the gossip, the wondering, all the things people said without knowing and then believed, since they heard it with their own ears, from their own lips, each word.

Louise Erdrich

#6. We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create our own centres.

Northrop Frye

#7. That's not an easy message to deliver whether it's in war and peace or in the economic arena, people don't want to be told that all their problems have been solved and everything good so it's a little bit tricky.

Vin Weber

#8. Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren't really waving at you, so you abort and go for a head scratch instead? That's how I felt.

Tim Tharp

#9. This earth is seventy percent water. Hard not to walk into it.

Jacqueline Woodson

#10. Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.

Harlan Coben

#11. The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

Rita Dove

#12. The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

Louise L. Hay

#13. Like nature, like life. The storm will pass. The night will end. Spring will come.

Carol Morgan

#14. wanted to build a toaster from scratch. He started by taking apart a

Tim Harford

#15. I dimly guess, from blessings known, of greater out of sight.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#16. Incumbency adds a layer of advantage on top of this party dominance. But rather than foster an environment in which members of Congress feel free to buck popular sentiment and wrestle seriously with the problems confronting the country, it reinforces the ideological divide between the parties.

Thomas E. Mann

#17. An act of generosity rarely ends a man's responsibilities toward another; it tends instead to begin them.

Amor Towles

#18. Every life has a file, if you will.

Joseph Brodsky

#19. Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories, you're continually having to start again from scratch, but with a novel you only need one good idea every few years.

Debra Dean

#20. If people came at you and started to scratch you, then of course you had the right to sit on them.

Alexander McCall Smith

#21. I'd been DJ-ing in these clubs in N.Y. and I hated everything that was coming out. So I decided I would make it myself. People were making mash-ups or remixes, but I was extra bored, so I actually started remaking these records from scratch.

Mark Ronson

#22. American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

Margaret Halsey

#23. I've always been very bonded to animals - more so than most people. (laughs) I don't think that they can defend themselves, so we have to help them.

Jennie Garth

#24. Mine [parents] started out more from scratch, because I'm constantly aware of what they suffered in the war.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

#25. All the metaphors in this world wouldn't scratch the surface of what stepping into darkness is like for me. And that's just darkness. Don't get me started on light. Really, don't get me started on light.

Glen Duncan