Quotes About Change

The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of my father's car looking out the window, and nothing has changed in 25 years.

Either things grow and change or they die.

It's interesting to be playing a father who's on the other side because that's not my world and not where I came from.

Michelle and Barack [Obama] epitomize what my father set the stage for - they epitomize global community organizing. I'm a global child, I was raised a global child, and he's a global child.

...Then I got divorced and everything changed, and I became a father in a whole new way and found a whole new set of difficulties.

This is not your father's marketing. Instead of "do it right no matter what", search marketing demands that you "do it wrong quickly and then fix it".

When I was growing up in the 50s it wasn't quite the same. Fathers were more protective and now they see all of the possibilities for their daughters.

On the Black Sea, my father saw it begin. And on the Black Sea, seventy years on, I saw the beginning of its end.

Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.

I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn't keep up.

... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized.

Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.

After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try.

Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.