Quotes About Transition

Breaking out beyond London's green belt was, and remains, like crossing the border into another country altogether.

My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.

In the 1940s women were changing from home to hospital where they gave birth alone and thus birth became a mystery to the next generation.

and poison gas-a far cry from the days when Cody and the troopers of the Fifth Cavalry rode hell-for-leather across the prairie in pursuit of hostile Indians.

S. William Pattis founded and served as Chairman/CEO of NTC Publishing Group from 1961 until 1996, when the firm was acquired by Tribune Company (NYSE). NTC published

Six years after the Herald appeared,

Don't expect wisdom at the moment of death.

when i wake up mornings alone it is more disturbing, when i imagine it could be the living things, that are going out of my life.

And as their love had begun a little before a quotation, so it ended a little after one.

Retirement? You're talking about death, right?

The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

this would involve moving incrementally from the negative state to another state which is only somewhat negative; confusion, for example. From the somewhat negative state, a small but significant step can be made to a state that is slightly positive; let's say curiosity about what might happen next. It is then relatively simple to take a step from the somewhat positive state to the desired state of motivation.

I would almost rather we had died that day than to have found ourselves here, lost somewhere between the dreaming and the coming true.

Forget the past, let the dead bury the dead. Things were working out fine, and that was the only thing he had to remember.

It is better to manage changes skillfully than to just let life happen to you.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, they turn 15.

Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.

There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.

The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.