Quotes About Change

In the beginning the stories were long and colored, but as he grew old and his eyes clouded, the stories were told in only a few words, and she came to understand that all the colors had fallen away from him, leaving only the moments. A woman who performed tricks in the air, an animal pulling a boat under water, dead children who spoke in bones. A man who loved bottles.

Nothing looks more foolish than tradition to those who have none.

I feel like God is waiting to see if I am waiting. If he just flooded in with answers and guidance right now, I would not have changed; I would not have learned to wait and trust without the answers and without a road map for the future. So I'm kind of glad that God was silent, because I actually want to wait; I want to prove my mettle to God. I don't necessarily want ease and instant anything any more.

It will also challenge attitudes that subjugate women in ways that he himself clearly and consistently redressed.

In 1955, there were 150,000 New Yorkers on welfare; in 1995, there were 1.3 million.

One thing I learned in this world? Things don't last. People say they do. They don't. Your friends, they die. The wars go on and on and on, then they end. People say they will love each other for the rest of their lives, and they don't.

Everywhere, men and women changed their names and embraced strange gods in order to live.

Later it might see moronic, but at that time it all made perfect sense.

So who are you today?

Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin.

The old stuffs for overseas. The new stuff's for Ireland. Dublin mostly. Things are changing. Traditional design is synonymous with the past. They want to sit at glass tables now, with weird chairs, and good-looking women.

I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.

The world will be solved by millions of small things.

The world is like a seesaw out of balance: on one side is a box of big rocks, tilting it its way. On the other side is a box, and a bunch of us with teaspoons, adding a little sand at a time. One day, all of our teaspoons will add up, and the whole thing will tip, and people will say, 'How did it happen so fast?

Keep your sense of humor. There is a 50-50 chance the world can be saved. You- yes you- might be the grain of sand that tips the scales the right way.

Maybe Americans have found it easier to latch on to new traditions because we are uprooted people, and have few deep roots.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

Explaining to people how lean transformations at a factory correspond to what happens to our cost of goods sold and our earnings and our stock price, that's kind of the change in thinking you want to get people bought into.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

It's sad when people break up.

Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.

Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.

For the first time, a whole generation had the economic & educational opportunity to turn their backs on the dead end factory jobs of their parents, who, traumatized by two world wars, had responded by creating a safety blanket of conformity.

Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss.