Quotes About Change

I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life. Your innocent understanding of the world moves towards something messier and more complicated, and once it does you can never go back.

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

You know, whenever somebody comes in, in any situation - whether it's a poker game or a bobsled team or a band - it's gonna change things. And sometimes significantly.

But when I will call it a day, I could become a professional poker player.

I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.

The 1960s were a time of cultural revolution in Poland. And I was a part of that revolution. For me, those years - the late 1950s and early 1960s - were the most fruitful.

In the grand scheme of things, polar bears are the least of our problems when it comes to climate change.

'Fly' really is the polar opposite of 'Girl in a Country Song.'

It is as polar opposite as it comes for the man who was Edna Turnblad in 'Hairspray' to come back as Sweeney Todd.

Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history.

Poles finished communism, and Great Britain profited significantly from this.

In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.

We want the police to be young, educated, and have a completely different outlook.

Cops have been complaining about morale since police forces were created. I used to complain about it a lot when I was a young cop.

Congress should consult experts and consider alternatives and make 100% sure that any step it takes to police the Internet doesn't change the Internet as we know it.

Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same.

My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.

When the acting all dries up, I won't be going there - either to the police force or to the church. I'll have to think of something else!

It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.

It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.

At one stage of my film career, between 2007 and 2010, I had taken up many projects where I played the role of a police officer. Later, I deliberately took a decision to not do any police roles. Since then I've been growing my hair and beard so that I'm not roped in for any such roles.

I think the only thing that's really going to make a change in terms of how we feel as citizens in terms of safety and our relationship with the police is if we start seeing more federal indictments, arrests, and convictions of police officers.

We have police officers who may devalue the life of Black people. And that's what we have to change.

I talk to teachers, nurses, police officers, and families nearly every day in North Carolina. Their desire to make a difference inspires me.