Quotes About Change

Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!

Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.

... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)

A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

Everything is energy in motion.

You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.

Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.

They couldn't wait to get me out. My dad found my place, my mom helped me pack, and my brother was making architectural plans for my bedroom. It was just what you do at 18.

If I should have a daughter, instead of "Mom," she's going to call me "Point B."

We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort.

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

But not like this: not with the house just an afterimage, and my mom a spirit, and my dad...recycled." "Carter Kane, Chapter 41

~As a working mother high heels don't really fit into my life anymore - but in a totally wonderful way. I would much rather think about my son than myself.~

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.