With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their proper positions under their bearings; and further, I propose to prepare a book, and to put down all as it were in a picture, by latitude from the equator, and western longitude.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.