Quotes About Transition

There will be a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

when does a man leave a place he has lived without some regret? For each time some part of him is left behind. So

gradualism in theory, is perpetuity in practice.

In a few years, Camp Greenlake will be a girl scout camp.

I wasn't quite sure what I'd just seen, but I knew it was time for me to leave.

I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.

It's like the tide, Jo, when it turns it goes slowly--but it can't be stopped.

And now, having endeavoured to suit everyone by many weddings, few deaths, and as much prosperity as the eternal fitness of things will permit, let the music stop, the lights die out, and the curtain fall for ever on the March family.

for love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change.

Well, I won't, but I hate to see things going all crisscross and getting snarled up, when a pull here and a snip there would straighten it out. I wish wearing flatirons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens cats, more's the pity!

The joys come close upon the sorrows this time, and I rather think the changes have begun,' said Mrs March. 'In most families there comes, now and then, a year full of events; this has been such an one, but it ends well, after all.

Jo March : I can't believe childhood is over. Meg March : It was going to end one way or another. And what a happy end.

the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn't like it.

And Jo felt as if during that fortnight her sister had grown up amazingly, and was drifting away from her into a world where she could not follow.

But buds will be roses, and kittens cats, more's the pity!

I rather miss my wild girl; but if I get a strong, helpful, tender-hearted woman in her place, I shall feel quite satisfied.

Don't feel that I am separated from you, Marmee dear, or that I love you any the less for loving John so much, she said, clinging to her mother, with full eyes for a moment. I shall come every day, Father, and expect to keep my old place in all your hearts, though I am married. Beth is going to be with me a great deal, and the other girls will drop in now and then to laugh at my housekeeping struggles. Thank you all for my happy wedding day. Good-by, good-by!

November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year

Nunca, hasta que sea vieja y no pueda moverme más que con un bastón. No intentes hacerme crecer antes de tiempo Meg; bastante duro es ya verte cambiar a ti de repente. Déjame ser niña todo el tiempo que pueda.

For love is the only thing we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

Don't try to make me grow up before my time, Meg. It's hard enough to have you change all of a sudden. Let me be a little girl as long as I can.