Source: Four Quartets
“My end is my beginning, and my beginning my end.”
Guillaume de Machaut (1300–1377) French poet and composer
Ma fin est mon commencement
Et mon commencement ma fin.
"Ma fin est mon commencement", line 1; translation from Donald N. Ferguson A History of Musical Thought (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1935] 1948) p. 94.
Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587) Scottish monarch and queen consort of France
"Mary, Queen of Scots" The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Ed. Elizabeth Knowles. Oxford University Press, 2004. Oxford Reference Online. http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t115.e2074
“My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins.”
Manuel L. Quezon (1878–1944) president of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944
As quoted in John Gunther's Inside Asia. (1939)
“En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.”
Philippa Gregory book The Other Queen
Source: The Other Queen
“I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.”
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian
The History of Freedom in Christianity (1877)
Context: I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task. In the ages of which I have spoken, the history of freedom was the history of the thing that was not. But since the Declaration of Independence, or, to speak more justly, since the Spaniards, deprived of their king, made a new government for themselves, the only known forms of Liberty, Republics and Constitutional Monarchy, have made their way over the world.
Gough Whitlam (1916–2014) Australian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia
Abiding Interests (1997), Foreword
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
As quoted in "Obama arrives in Cuba; hopes visit will usher in change" by Kevin Liptak, at CNN (20 March 2016) http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/20/politics/obama-cuba-arrival-change/ <br class="br">2016
Barack Obama book Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Source: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
