Quotes About Change

I wish I were there to watch the operations and changes; but alas! I am in Kansas scratching for a living.

The Egyptians took their goods to their graves with them. The great dynasties of Britain and Europe try to keep things in the family so long as there is something in the bank. But Americans prefer to turn it into cash and start anew. They are less sentimental about these things.

He had left home one day, yesterday, and come home today, and the change was too much for him to bear. And this was why he could not go home all at once.

upon that change he passes over to the ranks of the Old Salts and ceases to be a Boot forever. Youth rebels and age conserves; between them, they advance.

Nada podía durar. Todo tenía que ser fluido: no queríamos realidad, sino posibilidad. No podíamos parar quietos, siempre en movimiento, todo cambiando.

Youth rebels and age conserves; between them, they advance.

I realized that nothing ever comes back again quite the same. Things roll on, new sights take the place of the old, and the only way you can do it over is remember

Xander let the full extent of his misery show on his face for his mother. She gave his knee a shake, sharing his misery. She was good that way. "Give it some time," she whispered. "You'll make new friends and find new things to do. Wait and see.

What good is the present if you cannot change the future?

Sometimes I'm not sure I understand this generation." "They got to find their own way," said Aunt Pearl. "Same as we did.

The future has taken root in the present.

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

The Aquarium is gone. Everywhere,giant finned cars nose forward like fish;a savage servilityslides by on grease.

I keep no rank nor station.Cured, I am frizzled, stale and small.

Then morning comes, saying, "This was a night.

Surely the lives of the old are briefer than the young.

Then the dry road dust rises to whiten the fatigued elm leaves- the nineteenth century, tired of children, is gone. They're all gone into a world of light; the farm's my own.

They fly by like a train window:

Things last, but sometimes for days here only children seem fit to handle children, and there is no utility or inspiration in the wind smashing without direction. The fresh paint on the captains' houses hides softer wood.

Who can help us from our nothing to the all, we aging downstream faster than a scepter can check?

If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.

History may be read as the story of the magnificent rearguard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.