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Quotes About Change

Time is a dream ... a destroying dream; it lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas; it covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.
~ Conrad Aiken
Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam ... and after a while they will fall to dust and rain; or else we will tear them down with impatient hands; and hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.
~ Conrad Aiken
All lovely things will have an ending,All lovely things will fade and die,And youth, that's now so bravely spending,Will beg a penny by and by.
~ Conrad Aiken
Death is never an ending, death is a change; Death is beautiful, for death is strange; Death is one dream out of another flowing.
~ Conrad Aiken
Before him, numberless lovers smiled and talked. And death was observed with sudden cries, And birth with laughter and pain. And the trees grew taller and blacker against the skies And night came down again.
~ Conrad Aiken
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
~ Constance Baker Motley
I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.
~ Constance Baker Motley
He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.
~ Unknown
When we are no longer children we are already dead.
~ Constantin Brancusi
Piatra face ca un mormânt ori o cas? s? dureze mai mult decât este firesc. Ceea ce dureaz? mai mult? vreme devine muzeu ori închisoare. Ajunge o povar?. Un obstacol. Împiedic? s? se dezvolte o via?? nou?.
~ Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu
night is here but the barbarians have not come. And some people arrived from the borders, and said that there are no longer any barbarians. And now what shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were some kind of solution.
~ Unknown
Um dos traços evidentes de nossos tempos é que o sentido do presente é procurado muito mais no futuro do que no passado.
~ Unknown
Um dos sentidos evidentes de nossos tempos é que o sentido do presente é procurado muito mais no futuro do que no passado.
~ Unknown
Change is seen as something evil only by those who have lost their youth or sense of humor.
~ Unknown
Inside every old person is a younger person wondering "What the hell happened?"
~ Unknown
For a moment they all stood silent. The departure of this autumn ship gave rise to many different thoughts. Something came out of hiding in the most hardened.
~ Unknown
Our sexuality is body, culture, age, learning, habit, fantasies, worries, passions, and the relationships in which all these elements combine. That's why sexuality can change with age, partner, experience, emotions, and sense of perspective.
~ Unknown
The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.
~ Cordwainer Smith
I myself went into a hospital and came out French.
~ Cordwainer Smith
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
~ Coretta Scott King
As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest.
~ Corey Feldman
People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.
~ Corey Feldman
and the poor slob soon became a lame duck.
~ Unknown
None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)
~ Cornel West