Quotes About Change

Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead.

It's a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it.

Samuel smiled at him. "They say man lived in trees one time. Somebody had to get dissatisfied with a high limb or your feet would not be touching flat ground now.

And in the summer the river didn't run at all above ground.

No, in Ireland." "And in a few years you can almost disappear; while I, who was born in Grass Valley, went to school and several years to the University of California, have no chance of mixing.

Tom Wolfe was right," he reflected. "You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

It is a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it.

Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and change it for you to a kind of wisdom. His mind had no horizon—and his sympathy had no warp.

Then crop failure, drought, and flood were no longer little deaths within life, but simple losses of money. And all their love was thinned with money, and all their fierceness dribbled away in interest until they were no longer farmers at all, but little shopkeepers of crops, little manufacturers who must sell before they can make.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Cand cauti inapoi cu atentie, poti gasi intotdeauna momentul de inceput al unei noi epoci, dupa care totul merge de la sine, se inlantuie.

Boys were stunned by the size and grandeur of the West End after their background in a one-room country school. The opulence of having a teacher for each grade made a deep impression on them. It seemed wasteful. But as is true of all humans, they were stunned for one day, admiring on the second, and on the third day could not remember very clearly ever having gone to any.

Law changes, he said, but 'got to's' go on. You got the right to do what you got to do.

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.

It is a hard thing to live any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

Now it is over," he said sadly. "Now the great times are done. Thy friends will mourn, but nothing will come of their mourning." Danny

To hell with that rotten century! Let's get it over and the door closed shut on it! Let's close it like a book and go on reading! New chapter, new life. A man will have clean hands once we get the lid slammed shut on that stinking century. It's a fair thing ahead. There's no rot on this clean new hundred years. It's not stacked, and any bastard who deals seconds from this new deck of years— why, we'll crucify him head down over a privy.

Oh! Alice in Wonderland. You're too big for that.

In the summer when the hands of a clock point to seven, it is a nice time to get up, but in winter the same time is of no value whatever. How much better is the sun!

The climate changed quickly to cold and the trees burst into color, the reds and yellows you can't believe. It isn't only color but a glowing, as though the leaves gobbled the light of the autumn sun and then released it slowly. There's a quality of fire in these colors. I got high in the mountains before dusk.

Without travel, writing dies.

And I am sure that, as all pendulums reverse their swing, so eventually will the swollen cities rupture like dehiscent wombs and disperse their children back to the countryside.

Just Jim Casy now. Ain't got the call no more. Got a lot of sinful idears—but they seem kinda sensible.

His body was rearranging itself towards manhood, and he was shaken by the veering winds of adolescence.