Quotes About Transition

Ride it when you retire.

When I left 'Days of Our Lives,' I was like, 'I don't know if I'm ever working again. I'm going to do the best I can. If it happens, great. If not, well... it sucks for me.

When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.

There'll be icicles and birthday clothes And sometimes there'll be sorrow

You really must stop acting Like a 20-year-old, gold plated In a midlife crisis You just graduated Happy 60th

It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next. It's like asking you to sing a line of Happy Birthday and then Goodnight Irene - assuming you know the words to both those songs

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

I think I'm past the age of getting lost.

Enjoy how sweet, how thoughtful, how kind I'm being on your birthday. Because tomorrow it's back to the same old crap.

After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."

My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.

Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.