Quotes About Transition

Ellington Feint was a line in my mind running right down the middle of my life, separating the formal training of my childhood and the territory of the rest of my days. She was an axis, and at that moment and for many moments afterward, my entire world revolved around her.

Your initial opinion on just about anything will change over time.

Any age was a difficult age for someone needing to get through that window.

It is likely your own eyes were closed when you were born, so that you left the safe place of your mother's womb—or, if you are a seahorse, your father's yolk sac—and joined the treachery of the world without seeing exactly where you were going.

It is likely that your own eyes were closed when you were born, so that you left the safe place of your mother's womb - or, if you are a seahorse, your father's yolk sac - and joined the treachery of the world without seeing exactly where you were going.

We're not out of the woods yet.

You can't hate old people, because if you are not an old person, you will become an old person, or die while trying to do so.

I was tired of working in the lumber industry," Phil said. "I was sure I could find a better job, and look at me now—cook on a dilapidated submarine. Life keeps on getting better and better." "You always were an optimist," Klaus said.

For Beatrice - When we met, my life began. Soon after, yours ended.

reason most operating theaters have been closed down or have been turned into restaurants.

the stories that end in The End that began in The Bad Beginning are beginning to end now.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.

Forever doesn't exist. The concept of it all is just a process, a thought we create to give us confidence in our choices, a promise before the end. Forever is like a blooming cherry blossom, beautiful even after the wind has blown it away from home to settle on the tainted ground below.

I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.

In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.

All countries will inevitably have to do what Russia has done.

No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism.

People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort of five-year stretch or the seven-year itch or whatever these tension points are that seem to be organic, built in, like the tide coming in and going out. It's like every time the tide goes out you quit--you move your house or something.

I was the dreamweaver, but now I'm reborn I was the Walrus, but now I'm John And so dear friends, you'll just have to carry on The dream is over.

Like seasonless fowl we migrate… from East Coast to West Coast and back and forth again, for a job, for a friend, for a change, for a kick.

Of course, if adolescents are ready to take on the world—and make babies and sustain the species—it's no surprise they're surly and awful to be around when we treat them like little children today. The disconnect between "I'm grown up!" and "You're grounded" is just too great. One study found that the peak year for depression among American women is eighteen. They're ready to start out but can't get started.

E crede che la vecchia Russia, la Russia che lei ama, potrà ritornare?». «Forse. Chi sa» disse il conte Gagarin, e la sua voce suonò a un tratto stanca e triste. «Tra fuoco e dolore va la Russia per la sua strada. Dove essa porti, non ci è dato sapere».

Long, long before Freud, the Jews had this saying: "When a son gets married, he divorces his mother.