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Quotes About Transition

A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.
~ Ambrose Bierce
This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood.
~ Samuel Johnson
Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.
~ Arsene Houssaye
Old age is an island surrounded by death.
~ Juan Montalvo
Why is youth so short and age so long?
~ Ouida
I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve.
~ Albert Einstein
I'm a teen-age bride.
~ Marta Kristen
We in middle age require adventure.
~ Carolyn Heilbrun
When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally so I jumped the border. I didn't speak any English.
~ Cesar Millan
I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.
~ Charles Dickens
We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.
~ Anne Roiphe
Fear comes with middle age.
~ Lillian Hellman
And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where; One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there
~ Charles Kingsley
I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
~ Gaby Hoffmann
Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.
~ Denis Norden
Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.
~ Alex Shakar, The Savage Girl
Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.
~ Lord Cecil
The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.
~ Mason Cooley
There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days.
~ Richard Schickel
I think all shows change as they age as do the people who make the shows. As do the people who watch the shows. All targets are moving.
~ Alex Borstein
Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.
~ Mason Cooley
Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!
~ Deborah Copaken