Quotes About Transition

From my locker I collected my sneakers, jock strap, and gym pants and then turned away, leaving the door ajar for the first time, forlornly open and abandoned, the locker unlocked. This was more final than the moment when the Headmaster handed me my diploma. My schooling was over now.

Sixteen is the key and crucial and natural age for a human being to be, and people of all other ages are ranged in an orderly manner ahead of and behind you as a harmonious setting for the sixteen-year-olds of this world.

Like all old, good schools, Devon did not stand isolated behind walls and gates but emerged naturally from the town which had produced it. So there was no sudden moment of encounter as I approached it; the houses along Gilman Street began to look more defensive, which meant that I was near the school, and then more exhausted, which meant that I was in it.

Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence. Changed

Despite its abbreviated length, February's always struck me as an especially bleak month, at least in these parts. I know it's not the darkest month, and I know it's not the coldest or the snowiest month, but February is gray in a way I can't explain. In February, all the big happy holidays are gone, and it's weeks and weeks -months, even- until Easter and spring.

There isn't much Rainer is proud about any more. In coming to America, he's had to eat a tableful of humble pie, and he's learned it goes down best with a smile.

gardening leave—a legally required paid vacation to prevent conflicts of interest or sensitive information from passing from one bank to another.

I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.

Pullios stopped in the door.

October, not April, would be the cruelest month.

finally fade away in both the United States and the world. It did not disappear.

Indeed, Brand's thinking has evolved in many ways—from anti- to pronuclear, from environmentalism to conservationism, and from libertarianism to something closer to traditional liberalism.

Yesterday ended last night.

This is the only place in the whole Rocky Mountain front where you can go from the Great Plains to the summit of the mountains without snaking your way up a mountain face or going through a tunnel. This one feature had more to do with the building of the West than any other factor. I don't diminish the importance of the Oregon Trail, but here you had everything going for you. This point hasn't been made before.

So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.

The chaotic theory of education is that you go to college, earn a degree and then that degree may be used in something completely different. It's about achieving the goal first.

Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.

I thought i had been educated well enough until i left college.

We didn't feel so good when we took our son to college and saw a sign on the liquor store - Back to School Sale.

"Do you think your boy will forget all he learned in college?" "I hope so. He can't make a living drinking."

Graduation Speech: You'll have to excuse me if I cry. I've been a little teary-eyed all week the sadness the joy . . . the fact that I'm off my parents' payroll.

Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.

It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.