Quotes About Transition

I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.

I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.

Life used to be a rite of passage in and of itself. But it's not our parents' generation anymore.

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

For many of us, owning a home signaled a passage into adulthood that coincided with the start of a career and family.

Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.

I want to understand rites of passage I've never experienced, like motherhood.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

I just passed my identification crisis and came back to country music.

I passed the 11-plus, but it was decided that I should take the Common Entrance exam to Monmouth School, the nearest independent. I was never entirely comfortable there, as they didn't have girls, and they played rugby instead of football.

I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of creating life and the loss, within one year.

It's almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another.

Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter. I definitely would not have done it if she hadn't passed away.

When my mother passed away I was 20.

Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style has passed and the art-world heat-seeking machine has moved on.

My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.

The time of Milosevic has long passed.

When my husband Charles passed away in 2000, I took over as chair of our family's foundation. As I was mourning his loss, I also had to keep the foundation moving forward and to chart a course into what was then a very male-dominated philanthropic world.

For a nanosecond in the pre-Internet pre-digital age, I was a hot young actor, in the sense of popular, and then it passed.

The first time I passed as a woman in public was on leave in the U.S. from my deployment to Iraq in February 2010.

My dad passed away when I was 10.

When my dad passed, I felt like I had to grow up very quickly.

After school, I started living on my own. After my dad passed away, I didn't know where to go and eventually decided to hang on here in Hyderabad.