Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Pope Paul VI

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?
Wynton Marsalis

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Most of us can't even begin to imagine.
Meg Whitman

The campaign is over. It's time for the work of governing to begin.
Tom Daschle

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.
Christiane Amanpour

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
Grace Hansen

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
Cyril Connolly

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
Bret Harte

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
Mason Cooley

Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.
Peter O'Toole

I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
Waylon Jennings

You begin with the possibilities of the material.
Robert Rauschenberg

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.
David McCullough

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
Doug Coupland

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
Jeanette Winterson

Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.
Mary Tyler Moore