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Quotes About Transition

A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.
~ Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.
~ John Steinbeck
What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
~ Paddy Ashdown
The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Rant
The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
~ Franz Grillparzer
Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.
~ Stephen King
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be faster changing and more unpredictable than the present.
~ Brian Tracy
The future is a process, not a destination.
~ Bruce Sterling
Almost no one can take on an entire future in one step, much less while reeling emotionally.
~ Carolyn Hax
I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.
~ Crispin Glover
And I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future.
~ Han Nolan
You gotta keep things moving. If leaving behind the past means you can have a better future, then, sure, why not?
~ Lisa Mangum
When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.
~ Chuck Klosterman
What is now in the past was once in the future
~ Ramachandra Guha
The world is changing so fast that the future goes past soon as the present.
~ Anuj
If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.
~ Robert Kagan
The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
~ Edwin Land
The future has taken root in the present.
~ Nicol Williamson
She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.
~ Freya North, Chances
willyoupleasebequiet: are you ready? bluejeanbaby: for what? willyoupleasebequiet: the future willyoupleasebequiet: because i think it just started
~ David Levithan
Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.
~ Douglas Adams
The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.
~ Arnold Bennett
How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.
~ Sarah Dessen