Quotes About Transition

It was like he handed me a new life, and I happily stepped out of the past and into a present that felt very much like a brand-new beginning.

It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

Time magazine's Jay Carney and Richard Stengel are now in government while Obama aides David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs are commentators on MSNBC.

I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.

I was so busy enjoying the change in you, I didn't notice it in myself.

We're also learning that the most dangerous time often comes after a victory.

Change seems recognizable only after it's happened, like putting one's foot down for a familiar stair—and it's not there.

Most of all, I love graduations. They are individual and communal, an end and a beginning, more permanent than weddings, more inclusive than religions, and possibly the most moving ceremonies on earth.

It's time to leave - there is so much out there to do and say and listen to.

Marriage was always the happening end, not the beginning.

I always thought of my road life as temporary, assuming that one day I would grow up and settle down. Now I realized that for me, the road was permanent, and settling down was temporary. Traveling had created my nonroad life, not the other way around.

I confused growing up with settling down.

There are events that divide our life into before and after.

We're not having a revolution, but an evolution.

Altogether I've seen enough change to have faith that more will come.

It wasn't the victory of one man or the death of another. It was the death of the future, and of our youth, because we might be rather old before the conservers left and the compassionate men came back. Saturday.

Having lived his life in the belief that something great could be just around every corner, did he realize for the first time that no more corners could be turned? p.18

Between what is and what could be?

always in the familiar land of the temporary

When new people guide us, we see a new country.

Death is the price you paid for being born.

It is hard to give up what you know for what you don't know.