Quotes About Transition

We are born into mystery and we leave life in mystery.

When you go away the wind clicks around to the north

I wish I were a rock,' he said, and he became a rock.

History is seasonal, and winter is coming.

Sometime before the year 2025, America will pass through a great gate in history, commensurate with the American Revolution, Civil War, and twin emergencies of the Great Depression and World War II.

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.

But you didn't lose touch with a place when it wasn't there any more, you didn't lose touch with yourself as you were when you were part of it, with your childhood, with your simplicity then.

Horace Pendergast, originally from Cairo, Illinois.

How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!

A power is passing from the earth.

Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade   Of that which once was great is pass'd away.

I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.

It's good to change. If the change brings about confusion, who cares? Confusion makes you think. And that's another good thing.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

Half a life ago I was one man, and am now another. Where once I paid attention to my head, I now follow my heart. Where I once I strove for achievement, I now seek to give and receive love. Though I still want to earn a living, my writing now is entirely born in love and offered as love. I

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

You've got to grow up sometime.

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.

As we will see in the following pages, peacetime is not always kind to generals and they do not necessarily do well outside their task of generaling. Perhaps that is because during war they become as close to gods on earth as we are ever likely to see. Patton

W polowie drogi mojego zywota posrod ciemnego znalazlem sie lasu. Las ten co gorsza byl zielony.

Lange schaute er ihr nach. Als er sie aus den Augen verlor, war der Tod fast ein wenig betrübt. Aber so war das Leben.