44 Movie Quotes about Beginnings (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Jan 6, 2026

Memorable quotes about beginnings, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

11 And tomorrow, the real work begins.

BD Wong as Li Shang in Mulan (1998)

12 It begins on a dark night, where a dark man waits with a dark purpose.

Quote from Aladdin (1992)

13 Everybody falls the first time. Right, Trin?

Quote from The Matrix

14 Your new society sounds charming. The beginning of any society is never charming or gentle.

Quote from The Last Man on Earth (1964)

15 Nervous? -Yes. First time? -No, I've been nervous lots of times.

Robert Hays as Ted Striker in Airplane (1980)

16 This day I breathed first. Time is come round, and where I did begin, there shall I end. My life is run its compass.

John Gielgud as Cassius in Julius Caesar (1953)

17 It was the beginning of the rout of civilization, of the massacre of humanity.

Quote from The War of the Worlds (1953)

18 For everything, there is a first time, Lieutenant.

Leonard Nimoy as Captain Spock; Spock in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

19 Isn't that a wonderful beginning?

Peter Falk as Grandpa in The Princess Bride (1987)

20 It ain't over yet. The way I see it, we've only just begun.

Adam Sandler as Happy Gilmore in Happy Gilmore