Quotes About Change

My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother "worked" at anything besides raising her children.

I do think that the birth of my daughter was sort of a rebirth for me. It made me look at life in a completely new way. And that made me appreciate life in a way I don't think I ever had before.

It felt like it disrupted my rhythm in growing up. But I will say that I'm really grateful for [my mother's] own personal transition.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.

In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else's mother was staying at home.

In a sense the physical connectedness that you feel with your children as a mother changes as they become independent.

One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another like a mother.

I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

My mother was an activist so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then dissatisfaction must be its father.

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

My entire life changed when I became a mother - my priorities, my understanding, appreciation of life, and my relationship with God.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Perfecting the past blurs your focus of the future.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.