Quotes About Transition

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

Rice comes to life in water and should die in wine.

ISABELLE Je viendrai... Je viendrai... Mais je n'ai pas le sentiment que je serai particulièrement forte et volontaire, une fois disparue. Je sens très bien au contraire que ce qui me plaira dans la mort, c'est la paresses de la mort, c'est cette fluidité un peu dense te engourdie de la mort, que fait qu'en somme, il n'y a pas des morts, mais uniquement des noyés...

Malaga Alves." Obviously. Everything that rises must converge.

Guys were first effigies, then urchins. But always male

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck-if you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.

The explosion of the grenade in his dug-out made him take leave of the Greco-Latin-Christian civilized world. When he regained consciousness he was on the other side... among the Communists.

After years of a very busy life, I found myself with no commitments. It was a very free-floating state that was open, perhaps, to new ideas.

Yet GenX'er teens didn't slow down--they were just as likely to drive, drink alcohol, and date as their Boomer peers and more likely to have sex and get pregnant as teens. But then they waited longer to reach full adulthood with careers and children. So GenX'ers managed to lengthen adolescence beyond all previous limits: they started becoming adults earlier and finished becoming adults later.

Adolescence--the time when teens begin to do things adults do--now happens later. Thirteen-year-olds--and even 18-year-olds-- are less likely to act like adults and spend their time like adults. They are more likely, instead, to act like children--not by being immature, necessarily, but by postponing the usual activities of adults. Adolescence is now an extension of childhood rather than the beginning of adulthood.

technology means there is more to learn before becoming a productive adult. With the economy shifting away from agriculture and toward knowledge-based jobs, more education becomes necessary. As a result, it takes longer to grow to adulthood—you can no longer start working full-time at 12, as my grandfather did, and have all the skills you need. Instead, it takes until 18, 22, or longer to finish education and begin full-time work, one measure of reaching adulthood.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

Mais crains que l'avenir détruisant le passé

Things changed. Things that defined your life altered and shifted while you weren't paying attention. Sometimes you didn't even notice until you missed them.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

Once she'd gone, nobody spoke, except for his father who asked what was on next. Blake said it was Newhart.

Human beings stopped living in a state of nature as soon as they evolved into human beings. We've always tinkered and tampered.

He has gone and we are missing him ! When you get accustomed to people or places or ways of living, and then have them snatched away, it does leave an empty, gnawing sort of sensation.