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Quotes About Transition

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
~ William Shakespeare
Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation
~ Carl Sagan
He is the man who has been brought on to replace Pavel Nedved. The irreplaceable Pavel Nedved.
~ Clive Tyldesley
How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
~ Cormac McCarthy
Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.
~ Errol Flynn
A man who has drank his drinks cold at the same expense for one week can never be presented with them warm again.
~ Frederic Tudor
Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.
~ George Meredith
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
~ Jean Cocteau
Now that we're men, I changed my underwear.
~ Patrick Star
Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.
~ Paul Newman
Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
How does a man know when he's taking the last steps of his life?
~ Roy Campanella
How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!
~ Albert Camus
Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
~ Alexander MacLaren
They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.
~ Sholom Aleichem
How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).
~ Susanna Clarke
...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.
~ Thomas Wolfe
What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!
~ Laurence Sterne
What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
~ Pearl S. Buck
When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.
~ Placido Domingo
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.
~ Ariana Franklin