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Quotes About Transition

The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.
~ Amy Hempel
A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.
~ Ann Landers
Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?
~ Marcus Aurelius
Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.
~ Margaret Oliphant
Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
~ Patrick Ness
Man's life is a progress, not a station.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.
~ Hall Caine
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
~ Henry Adams
The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.
~ Henry Ford
As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.
~ Henry Parry Liddon
Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
~ Heraclitus
Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
A boy becomes a man when a man is needed
~ John Steinbeck
There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.
~ John Steinbeck
Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.
~ John Updike
-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.
~ Larry McMurtry
I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
Man is a degeneration of what he was.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island anymore. You're in the NBA. The girls have teeth here.
~ Charles Barkley
I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust.
~ Demetri Martin
MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow.
~ Enson Inoue
Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.
~ Garrison Keillor
Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.
~ George R. R. Martin
Some people are boys longer than others.
~ Patricia Briggs, Iron Kissed