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Quotes About Change

It is time to be old To take in sail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
~ Robert Frost
Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.
~ Donald Hall
Veins raised themselves along the backs of my hands that summer. My handwriting changed several times. I began reading Time magazine. Soon after that it was time to go.
~ Lorene Cary, Black Ice
That amazing time in our lives is gone, and will never return. All the beautiful possibilities we had then have been swallowed up in the flow of time.
~ Haruki Murakami
Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.
~ Virginia Woolf
Old Age- You can tell when you're getting old when you stop taking drugs for fun and start taking them to keep you alive.-character Jackson Rockenberger (Broken)
~ J. Matthew Nespoli
As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.
~ Craig Venter
Sometimes I feel that I'm not just aging . . . I'm decomposing.
~ Fletcher Anderson
My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.
~ Douglas Jerrold
Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
~ Bennett Cerf
Middle age is when your narrow waist and broad mind begin to change places.
~ Ben Klitzner
I was just thinking when I was a young girl I never knew what every young girl was supposed to know. And now I am going to be an old lady I don't know what every old lady is supposed to know.
~ Edith Bunker
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
~ Bob Wells
Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and walk our dogs. Like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end.
~ Gray Scott
I started balding at age 17 and after first being sad, I really embraced it.
~ Jason Alexander
The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.
~ Thom Mayne
I wasn't always overweight. I was a skinny little punk of a kid with severe asthma. When I got married at the age of 22, I wore a cut-down size eight wedding gown.
~ Mary Kay Andrews
Change alone is unchanging.
~ Heraclitus
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying, 'Okay, I'm in the tampon aisle, but I don't see it.'
~ John Gierach
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
~ John Stuart Mill
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
~ Martin Luther