Quotes About Change

The autumn leaf falls faster than the trees grow faster. (La feuille d'automne descend plus vite - Que les arbres ne grandissent plus vite.)

The boa digests slowly. The habit digests slowly. (Le boa digère lentement. - L'habitude digère lentement.)

The old becomes deaf, but hears death. (Le vieux devient sourd, Mais entend la mort)

The regrets are like yesterday: They announce only the future. (Les regrets sont comme hier: - Ils n'annoncent que le futur)

Truth is like a flying bird: It brakes suddenly, it falls to the ground. (Vérité est comme un oiseau qui vole: Il freine d'un coup, il tombe au sol)

One expected growth, change without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

I ate umble pie with an appetite.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

"I am in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come?" said Scrooge.

He's a-going out with the tide.

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Marley was dead: to begin with.

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

I must do something or I shall wear my heart away...

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

A new heart for a New Year, always!

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.