Quotes About Transition

The ride is far from over.

I saw Mom the way she had been and could have been and was becoming in these days free of Dad.

What were those but maps that charted women's journeys as they traversed the rocky terrain separating girl from woman? Our maps, our histories, our reminders of how we found our truest selves?

As expansive as the view was, my hometown had shrunk without anything changing but my perspective.

There must be a few times in life when you stand at a precipice of a decision. When you know there will forever be a Before and an After...I knew there would be no turning back if I designated this moment as my own Prime Meridian from which everything else would be measured.

I took her hand in mine, not the way I used to hold hers as a child, but with our fingers woven together. And we strode through the archway of emperors and into the open -- hand in hand, my mother and I.

There must be a few times in life when you stand at a precipice of a decision. When you know there will forever be a Before and an After.

Progress is hard on history.

Sometimes...I'd lie awake in the dark, right before dawn, and wonder if I'd ever be glad to see morning again. If I'd ever really come out on the other side.

See you in the fall.

No one becomes depraved in a moment.

The trouble with now is, it's over in a heartbeat, and then you've got to think of something else.

If a man's a really good teacher, we stop him teaching and make him an organiser.

Getting out of the briar tangle was significantly harder than getting in . . . The brambles ran their fingers down his face and tugged at his clothes like children wanting attention, as if they were sorry to see him go.

people on earth understand that true beauty in life comes in knowing there's always one more chapter." –

I personally feel that a box, far from being a dead end, is an entrance to another world. I don't know to where, but an entrance to somewhere, some other world.

If from the beginning you always believed that a ticket was only one-way, then you wouldn't have to try so vainly to cling to the sand like an oyster to a rock.

See, we don't know the beginning and we don't know the end; all we can know about is the in-between stuff. And that, my friend, is what life is like.

Human beings stand in the rubble of former beliefs.

La storia della casa della moschea è lungi dall'essere conclusa, ma è come la vita: ognuno deve pur scendere da qualche parte. C'è una frase che ritorna sempre alla fine degli antichi racconti persiani: -La nostra storia è finita, ma il corvo è lungi dall'aver raggiunto il suo nido.

Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Scientists accustomed to working with limited resources and virtually no deadlines now had to adjust to a world of unlimited resources and exacting deadlines.

house at Otowi Bridge.