Every step starts with a step.
When there is a start to be made, don't step over! Start where you are.
A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.
When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep.
I graduated from University of Maryland, 1996 - or '97, actually.
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
...sometimes a start is all we ever get.
A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.
It was not an end, it was a beginging
George W. Bush gave a commencement speech at Southern Methodist University this weekend. It was pretty inspirational. He said, 'As I like to tell the 'C' students, you too can be president.' Even George W. Bush has George W. Bush comedy material in his act.
As a life-long liberal who has engaged in protests against the government and for civil rights, I am saddened at efforts by some of my fellow liberals to silence commencement speakers with whom they might disagree on some issues.
En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.
The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning.
The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.
This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.
Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.
A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
Receiving my first degree was one of the most important days of my life.
Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.
Nothing was to be lost by beginning at the beginning.
Here's to new beginnings," Stuart says and raises his bourbon. I nod, sort of wanting to tell him that all beginnings are new.
It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement
I've finally graduated from 'I don't give a hoot.'
Graduation is not the conclusion of an achievement but simply the ending of one chapter and the beginning of another chapter
