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Quotes About Change

Today is a fantasy for tomorrow has gone and yesterday is here!
~ Munia Khan
Reo Malone - "You can't put the genie back in the bottle.
~ Unknown
Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better.
~ George Muller
If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?
~ William McKinley
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change
~ Lauryn Hill
IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.
~ Edward Carpenter
I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.
~ Nujood Ali
My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'
~ Alan King
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.
~ Giuseppe Mazzini
I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'
~ Ralph Nader
We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.
~ Frank Schaeffer
We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn't foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything.
~ Henry Steele Commager
I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.
~ Will Ferrell
Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.
~ Robert Lowell
I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.
~ Placido Domingo
My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.
~ Jason Statham
If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
~ James Russell Lowell
I realize that when I moved out of my father's house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.
~ Sandra Cisneros
When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size.
~ Tracy K. Smith
A moment might be a thousand different things.
~ Kim Edwards
It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.
~ Hermann Hesse
The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
~ Edith Hamilton