Quotes About Transition

There is a stigma attached to people who go from singing to acting.

I feel proud I was part of the old school and still around in the new school.

That's what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It's about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose a job, or go back to school, or start that new business, we'll still have coverage.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.

I think of my life as a journey, and I'm still on it.

There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.

Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death.

I'm really going to miss all the people in the front office, media relations, marketing, all the great people at the ball park. They were my family for a while, and that part really stings. But life does go on.

I feel like anybody would be heartbroken to see how quickly or easily you are replaced; of course that's going to sting.

A few years after 'Melrose Place,' when the luster of 'Melrose Place' wore off and what was left was just the stink, and I was just doing bad TV movies, that was a personal low point. I felt I needed to stop doing those, and I did.

Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.

When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner.

Of course it's a big change from Stoke to Liverpool. Liverpool is a big, big team.

The thing is, Stoke City pulled me out of a situation where I was not playing, where I was not happy, and that was in Germany. They have breathed new life into me.

When you leave a club like Liverpool, you have to go somewhere you'll feel comfortable and progress as a player. To come to Stoke was an easy decision.

If I were to leave Stoke, it would have to be a step up for me. Everything would have to be right.

When I came to Stoke, I expected them to be moving forward, every year getting better, but it's not been like this.

I've grown up a lot in England since I arrived at Stoke.

Coming to Stoke was a chance for me to develop and take my game to the next level.

Two thoughts occur to just about any parent whose child is about to enter college. The first is, 'I can't believe how quickly the years have gone by.' The second: 'I can't believe how much it costs.' As one of those parents, I did my best to get past the disturbing first thought and tried to calm my churning stomach while dealing with the second.

When the butterflies in my stomach, when those leave, then I know it's probably time to retire.

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

I've been pretty lucky. Every single thing I've done has meant so much to me and has been like a stepping stone to something different.