“What we celebrate today is not a victory of party or of individuals. What we celebrate is a beginning as well as an end; a change as well as a restoration. A beginning to end poverty, and misery; a beginning to end ignorance and hopelessness; and a beginning to restore all that is good, beautiful and sublime in our lives as one people under God.”
Inaugural Address (2003)
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Bukola Saraki 6
Nigerian politician 1962Related quotes
“Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are ours to turn into something good.”
Source: Everlasting
Interview with Don Swaim (1986)
Interview with Don Swaim (1986)
“Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.”
Source: Middlemarch (1871)
Context: Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. Who can quit young lives after being long in company with them, and not desire to know what befell them in their after-years? For the fragment of a life, however typical, is not the sample of an even web: promises may not be kept, and an ardent outset may be followed by declension; latent powers may find their long-waited opportunity; a past error may urge a grand retrieval.
“Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.”
Maxim 739, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
speech at Lord Mayor’s Luncheon, Mansion House, London, November 10, 1942 : ( partial text http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/EndoBegn.html)
Referring to the British victory over the German Afrika Korps at the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt.
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Variant: This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.
Source: Their Finest Hour
“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”
Source: Buddha's Little Instruction Book