Starting point Quote by Rosemary Ashton

“I've always believed there are moments in our lives which can be defined as a transition between the before and after, between the cause…

— Benjamin X. Wretlind

“It is a curious phenomenon: as we advance, we reach backward in time.”

— Wade Graham

“I think that perhaps there are no such defining moments at all. Beginnings and ends are fluid, long chains of events where some links…

— Linda Olsson

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Beginnings could happen more than once, or in different ways. You could think you were starting something afresh, when actually what you were doing…

— Rachel Joyce

For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected, so…

— Anthony Powell

“All events are but the consummation of preceding causes, clearly seen but not distinctly apprehended.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of…

— Hannah Arendt

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

— Thomas Carlyle

“We started seeing motion as a sign of success and transition as a sign of progress.”

— Jonathan Acuff

“The event of history is hidden in time.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Each time we cast our view toward distances that have not yet been touched, we transform not only the present moment and the one…

— Rainer Maria Rilke