Quotes About Change

I am made of pieces and of the spaces between them where other pieces used to be. I am a landscape of loss. Most of me is the memory of where else, and who else, and with whom, I have been and no longer am.

There is no more fertile ground for revolution than the educated unemployed

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.

It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue; and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

"Pilgrim's Progress," about a man that left his family it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

A man with a new idea is a crank -- until the idea succeeds.

At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

Youth, large, lusty, loving- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

Nothing stays not even change, That can grow tired of it's own name; The very thought too much for it. Somewhere in air a stillness is, So far, so thin- But let it alone. Whoever we are it is not for us

It's very easy to turn a toy into an adult toy: Location, location, location.