Quotes About Transition

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.

You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

I realize that when I moved out of my father's house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.

I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.

right now,I am my father

Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.

I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.

...Then I got divorced and everything changed, and I became a father in a whole new way and found a whole new set of difficulties.

On the Black Sea, my father saw it begin. And on the Black Sea, seventy years on, I saw the beginning of its end.

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.

The world doesn't change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Some people die twice: once when they retire, and again when they actually pass away. Fear of the first one is a big incentive for me to keep working.

My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

I don't fear death; I welcome it with open arms and a smirk. But until that wondrous day, I will continue to savor and celebrate all those who have graduated before me.