Quotes About Transition

Once she entered the period of half-mourning, the widow would

was empty, what had happened to the family's

new France. I pity them, and I fear what lies ahead.

Why would she want to come back here and live?' I wondered. 'Doesn't seem like she'd want to.' 'Why do you say that?' 'She seems different, that's all.' 'I don't know,' Bud said. 'You might be confusing different with dissatisfied.

Everything was almost the same with her, but she went about her business in a way that put me in mind of an old matchbook. You can scratch the head against the strip in the same way you always have, but you are not going to get any kind of spark.

I didn't want a fresh start, but maybe a little breathing room would be nice.

Olive brought me into this world and trained me up to be the man I recognized as myself. But Celestial was the portal to the rest of my life, the shiny door to the next level.

After a year, I was ready to get this show on the road, creating a new generation with an updated set of rules and regulations

When something happens that eclipses the imaginable, it changes a person. It's like the difference between a raw egg and a scrambled egg. It's the same thing, but it's not the same at all.

I'm not being spiteful, I'm trying to figure out how to live with this new reality.

Before we were living that Huxtable life. But now where are we? I know where you are and I know where I am, but where are WE?

But home isn't where you land; home is where you launch.

But with my mother and Celestial, I was actually split down the middle. Olive brought me into this world and trained me up to be the man I recognized as myself. But Celestial was the portal to the rest of my life, the shiny door to the next level.

Be careful when you leave Atlanta, because you'll end up in Georgia.

It was hard being behind bars when I turned thirty-five, but would it have been so hard if somebody told me that the next year I would be a free man? Time can't always be measured with a watch or a calendar or even grains of sand.

Sooner or later they will leave our country, just as many people throughout history left many countries. The railways, ships, hospitals, factories and schools will be ours and we'll speak their language without either a sense of guilt or a sense of gratitude. Once again we shall be as we were — ordinary people — and if we are lies we shall be lies of our own making.

El mundo no queda nunca estático; cada año que pasa es un mundo diferente. Sin embargo, ahora que todo el mundo dice que vivimos en un mundo cambiante, creo que es una excusa para justificar los excesos.

In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on.

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another.

...it rains when youre here and it rains when youre gone.

Why leave when you can stay, why stay if you have to go

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.