Quotes About Transition

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

She could not go back. To the Transients' Hostel. To Kilimanjaro West, her home. To Armitage-Weir and her warm, friendly office. Home. She sat, crushed by a sense of looming inevitability ponderous as a falling moon.

Nothing tells you that you are not on Earth anymore than exhaling at one price and inhaling at another.

Legends should stay legends otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history to legend.

isn't the years that matter, Adam. Time doesn't run that way. Life's quick and then it's slow and then there are grey spaces where it really doesn't seem to run at all.

Now is the first day of the rest of your strife.

Places changing and people with them, dreams shifting ever further beyond reach.

nothing ever vanished, not totally. Instead, things altered shape, substance, meaning.

I've just worked out what the music on the speakers is," he said. "It's John Martyn, Over The Hill." "And ?" "And nothing. It's just, maybe I'm not there yet.

The city disappears street by street as you enter it.

Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it.

Mr. Pierce, you're going home tomorrow." "Are you serious?" She explained that Governor Brown had signed the order officially granting me parole: January 8, 2016, was my release date.

in South Central unexpectedly when I was orphaned at age twelve. I'm originally from New Jersey—born in Newark, raised in a middle-class suburb called Summit. My mother passed suddenly when I was in third grade from a heart attack. My father did his best to raise me on his own for a couple of years, but when I was in seventh

At first, I got bused to a junior high in Culver City—a mostly white school—but for tenth grade, I decided I wanted to walk to Crenshaw High. Man, talk about culture shock. Crenshaw was where I first got introduced to the

I moved out of my aunt's house and got my own apartment when I was seventeen. Since I was an orphan, my aunt was getting a Social Security check for $250 every month, and finally I said, "Look, give me the money. You don't want me here anyway—I'm gone.

had five straight gold albums—about a ten-year plateau—and then my sales just dropped off a steep fucking cliff. From being able to ship half a million records, suddenly I was only shipping

150,000. When I first realized it was happening, I took it personally, but that feeling lasted maybe two months. I noticed that it was the same story for Public Enemy, EPMD, Eric B. & Rakim. All these artists I respected were no longer selling like they used to. I said, "Okay, there's a paradigm shift going on.

One of the keys to my career longevity has been an awareness that there are times you need to humble yourself and simply switch lanes. You need to recognize that there are distinct phases to everything and be ready to embrace the changing phases.

By the end of the 1990s, my relationship was ending with the mom of my son, Little Ice. So I just picked up and left everything I had in L.A. and transitioned to New York. I went from that big-ass house in Hollywood Hills and got a one-bedroom apartment with no furniture

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it'.

Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: 'Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.

Life: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man.

Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on.