Quotes About Transition

The child, like Greene himself, is a traveller; the adult has arrived:

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

And after night comes day, or more night, depending on the particular time-frame you choose to apply to your perspective.

And now it's afterwards. The worse of it is: it will always be afterwards now.

Whichever way speech and language emerged in humans, it was a transition, with all those necessary but not sufficient pieces being nudged in one way or the other, by chance, by selection. The fact that it was a transition, not a revolution, means it took time.

Life is transition: The only things that are truly static are already dead.

It was hard not to grieve for all the pleasant things that were gone. While they were there I had accepted them unthinkingly and without thanks.

It's a bittersweet road we parents travel. We start with total commitment to a small, helpless human being. Over the years we worry, plan, comfort, and try to understand. We give our love, our labor, our knowledge, and our experience—so that one day he or she will have the inner strength and confidence to leave

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

I'm at that place I grew up to leave.

And realize that maybe they came into your life, not to be there forever, but to teach you something that will make you ready when forever finds you.

I go by Kit now… and, just so you know, Katie wants to be called Kat." Jesus Christ. Give me a break…

A spirit of practicality had come to her aid. It was only human. When the earthquake stops, when the flood recedes, when the volcanic dust settles or the guns fall silent, the survivors pick their way through the rubble and debris and wreckage. A chair leg here, a first communion certificate or a bundle of love letters there. The flotsam and jetsam of the old ways?the ways that will never return.

Piece by piece I seemto re-enter the world.

this is where I live now. If you had known me once, you'd still know me now though in a different light and life. This is no place you ever knew me.

I know you are reading this poem in a room where too much has happened for you to bear where the bedclothes lie in stagnant coils on the bed and the open valise speaks of flight but you cannot leave yet.

We cut the wires, find ourselves in free-fall, as if our true home were the undimensional solitudes, the rift in the Great Nebula.

As soon as I was visibly and clearly pregnant, I felt, for the first time in my adolescent and adult life, not-guilty.

I'm passing the baton on son, you go run with it.

I have so many things that I want to do with my life. I just don't see myself being a fighter forever. Boxing is my love and passion. It also opens up and sets up other things in my life as well.

When I got fired, I had a feeling of loss because Viacom had been a passionate long-term relationship. But I got my balance back. I guess it's like getting jilted by a girlfriend, a serious girlfriend. You move on.

Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to start affecting you more, and your parents' influence is going to wane. Middle grade is when a lot of kids discover their passions - art, music, sports, what have you.

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.