Quotes About Transition

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 workaday world again.

O amor é a única coisa que podemos levar conosco quando partimos, e isso torna o fim muito tranquilo.

when I seemed most like a child I was learning to be a woman.

Let the music stop, the lights die out, and the curtain fall for ever on the March family

As Beth had hoped, the tide went out easily and in the dark hour before the dawn on the bosom where she had drawn her first breath, she quietly drew her last, with no farewell but one loving look, one little sigh.

jo achou que parecia que a irmã tinha amadurecido muito naqueles quinze dias e que se distanciava dela para um mundo em que não poderia segui-la.

for you belong to the old set, and I to the new; you will get on the best, but I shall have the liveliest time of it

The best have to get through the hobbledehoy age, and that's the very time they need most patience and kindness. People laugh at them, and hustle them about, try to keep them out of sight, and expect them to turn, all at once, from pretty children into fine young men. They don't complain much,--plucky little souls,--but they feel it.

Pausing an instant on the threshold before she vanished from their sight, she looked backward, and fixing on Gerald the strange glance he remembered well, she said in her penetrating voice, Is not the last scene better than the first?

The effects of moving are experienced in the body, in the imagination, in the realm of desire. What the eye sees, what the body feels, what the heart yearns for, what remains and what has been lost -- these are difficult at first to describe.

The universe is transformation.

A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.

To fly from one tree to another, the raven hangs itself, hawklike, on the air. I hang myself that same way in sleep, between one day and the next.

Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.

Two years ago he dodged newspaper men. Now he courts them.

Luckily for Rockefeller, the lightbulb didn't instantly drive out kerosene: It took time for Edison to cover the country with power stations, and by 1885 only 250,000 lightbulbs shone across America.

Driven by such changes in the economy

Pierpont began to emerge from his father's shadow and take charge of major deals.

and the power balance within the Morgan empire began to tip from London to New York.

between 1789 and 1791, France basked in some sort of liberal pleasure garden before the erection of the guillotine is a complete fantasy.

Commodore Vanderbilt's death was a pivotal moment in the shift of business from family to public ownership—a transition rich in possibilities for Pierpont Morgan.

Yet again he contemplated giving up business. An

As the years went by

That's why babies cry so much. All of a sudden having a body is a lot to deal with.