beginnings Quotes

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love to pose to anyone who seems sympathetic. After all, if the universe has only been around for roughly 14 billion years, isn't it legitimate to ask what was in existence before the mother-of-all-events cranked up the cosmos?

You know there is a person inside every baby, right? And anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.