Quotes About Transition

horses faded away. Maybe it had served time as an office. It was impossible to tell. It

This isn't the Wild West." "You got that right. This is the timid West. We need to roll the clock back.

Further On Up the Road." Bobby Bland

people who have spent their lives in the military have trouble adjusting to civilian life afterward.

She was embarrassed at first, then placatory, and then she got down to business.

Then a slow mile later such places started thinning out, in favor of vacant lots and piney woods, and a sense of empty vastness ahead.

They really didn't want me there. I finally realized. So I didn't fight it. I took an honorable discharge and walked away." "When was this?" "A long time ago." "And you're still walking." "That's too profound." "You sure?" "Deep down I'm very shallow.

Every state puts a lot of effort into the first mile of its highways, to make you feel you're entering a better place from a worse one. Reacher wondered why they didn't put the effort into the last mile instead. That way, you'd miss the place you were leaving.

There was mist in the nighttime air, like a note on a calendar. The end of summer was coming. Fall was on its way.

These guys hadn't mixed with the public since they took the bus up the Hudson to start their plebe year at the Point.

Then I started crying for it seemed to me then that life is nothing but people leaving.

You never like it to happen, for something as hopeful and sudden as a January thaw to come to an end, but end it does, and then you want to have some quilts around.

I've come down in the world. I've slid to a place where the ceiling is low and there isn't much room for me to move.Most of the time I'm good. I accepted my sentence and do not brood or look back. But sometimes a shift makes me remember. Routine is ruffled and a new start makes me suddenly conscious of what I've become -

W]ith the disappearance of divine caring, i.e., of a caring by beings which in the eyes of everyone are superior to men, it became inevitable that every art or every man should believe itself or himself to be as much entitled to rule as every other art or every other man, or that at least many arts should become competitors of the kingly art. The inevitable first consequence of the transition from the age of Kronos to the age of Zeus was the delusion that all arts and all men are equal.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man.

You are pitiful, isolated individuals! You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!

permanent positions. Joint Fighters shrank

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

In many respects, the West has not recovered from the Middle Ages.

As a society and as parents we face a challenge without precedent. We have to help girls and boys make a transition to a gendered adulthood, to adult life as women and men in a culture in which women can do anything, including being rocket scientists, and men can do anything, including staying home to raise a baby. We have to find ways to value and cherish gender differences without restricting freedom of opportunity.

One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present. Life, if well spent, is long.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come