Quotes About Transition

Bueno, nos hemos bajado del caballo y nos montamos en el burro. ¡Que sea para bien!

As in many other cities, money no longer had any value in Istanbul. At the time I returned from the East, bakeries that once sold large one-hundred drachma loaves of bread for one silver coin now baked loaves half the size for the same price, and they no longer tasted the way they did during my childhood.

the place we return to is never the same place we left.

Sabía que si regresaba a Venecia no podría retomar una vida que había dejado a medias en el mismo punto en que se había interrumpido. Como mucho, podría iniciar una vida distinta.

But as we all know, the place we return to is never the same place we left.

about itself: "There are times

We have to go. I'm almost happy here.

History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.

So what do we do now?" asked Alai. "The bugger war's over, and so's the war down there on Earth, and even the war here. What do we do now?" "We're kids," said Petra. "They'll probably make us go to school. It's a law. You have to go to school till you're seventeen." They all laughed at that.

You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive

Oh, people get used to so many things, said Vadesh, if only they give them selves a chance.

As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes.

Names come and go. They get attached to you, and then you lose them, and they get attached to someone else.

There is nothing that doesn't decay. Some things decay more slowly than others, that's all.

When your child goes off to war, you will never get him back. Not as he was, not the same boy. Changed, if he comes back at all.

We suddenly find ourselves afflicted with peace, you see. Always a disaster for those whose careers have not reached their natural apex.

Thus a man hates the house they lived in together, because either he does not change it, so that it is as dead as his wife, or because he does change it, so that it is no longer half of their making.

his Calvinism would not outlast his undergraduate education, though its excision would be long and painful.

The limbic node deep in her brain didn't understand that she no longer lived in a tree, no longer had to panic when she felt herself to be falling.

Their young go through a helpless grub stage, too, which lasts longer than some of them think.

The Russians stopped being the bad guys back in the twentieth century!

History is an omelet. The eggs are already broken.

It's also like being born," said Ender. "As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes.

When changes come, we start with what we are right then, and then we work to try to become whoever we need to be.