Quotes About Transition

So this idea of moving seemed like a good way to sort of represent that metaphorically. It also is something for me personally. When I was in fifth grade - so about 11 - my folks moved us to Denmark.

L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.

All good things have to come to an end, and the male cheerleader has come to an end

We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.

Even the worst days have an ending, and the best days have a beginning.

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

A real possibility now exists for a Government that is not led by either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.

The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment.

A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.

The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.

In this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will leave by inauguration day.

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

We are all in the process of becoming.

Death is a graduation. When we're taught all the things we came to teach, learned all the things we came to learn, then we're allowed to graduate.

So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.

Harry taught me that death isn't the end, it's the beginning.

The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules.