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American singer-songwriter and actor 1949Related quotes

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. ”

“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”
Source: This Is How You Lose Her

“Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)”
Source: Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness And Making Miracles

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
As quoted in Funny Ladies : The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women (2001) by Bill Adler, p. 51