Quotes About Transition

I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window.

I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.

Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an end was come of the story and song of those times.

I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.

Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

I wanted to try something different. Most people my age go off to college; I thought I'd try out New York.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.

Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you.

There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead.

I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century.

The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.

My dear, we live in an age of transition.

In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.