Quotes About Change

the motto "Shop less, live more, save the earth," the team at Operation Noah, anxious about climate change, is promoting a series of events throughout Advent encouraging people to experience Advent in its traditional sense—as a period of "quiet reflection and eager anticipation for the birth of Christ" rather than a time to buy and consume.

Over time, and perhaps because of his contact with human beings, the Doctor mellowed and became less irascible. But his brilliance and his passion for justice remained undiminished. …

History takes time. History makes memory.

Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.

Money is always there, but the pockets change.

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

Tengo que irme, me dije, ya he perdido demasiado tiempo entre los muertos, fingiéndome muerto, olvidándome de la ironía.

youth runs away from old age, because it is its most cruel enemy

The longer you remain in Rome,' said [Cardinal] S.C., 'the smaller you will find it.

Every day we lose something; one of the illusions, which are our only riches, perishes or diminishes. Experience or truth divests us every day of part of our possessions. We do not live, except in losing.

So, ignorant of man and of the age that he calls ancient, and of the descendants following their ancestors, nature stays evergreen; indeed she travels such a long road she might as well be standing still. Meanwhile kingdoms fall, languages and peoples die; she doesn't see. Yet man takes it upon himself to praise eternity.

If we happen to be praised on account of qualities which we formerly despised, our estimation of those qualities immediately rises.

Ahi ahi, ma conosciuto il mondo Non cresce, anzi si scema, e assai più vasto L'etra sonante e l'alma terra e il mare Al fanciullin, che non al saggio, appare.

Tutti i secoli, più o meno, sono stati e saranno di transizione, perché la società umana non istà mai ferma, né mai verrà secolo nel quale ella abbia stato che sia per durare. ( Dialogo di Tristano e di un amico )

los hombres mueren y los gobiernos cambian, pero las canciones de La Bohéme vivirán siempre. Thomas Alva edison

Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school.

Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things.

Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance at this strange habit of mathematicians, which has changed little from Pythagoras to our day.