Quotes About Transition

What a thing, half bird, half lizard, part one thing, part another, trapped forever between more perfect states.

And the skies: in one day the sky could travel from green at dawn to a noontime blue so severe it was almost black to hot silver in the afternoon to roiling burgundy at sunset. Just before night it flowered in yawning, imperial violets. Wedges of mauve, cauldrons of peach—skies more like drugs than colors.

To enter a world of shadows is to leave this world for another.

All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?

leaving one field of dreams for another does not diminish the beauty of where you have been. As a new field rises and the former field recedes it is all part of His plan. Your present location is more than preparation for where you are going. It is the good grounding you need in order to be able to grow and rise into the next place that God has prepared for you.

For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.

Rome became a republic in 509 B.C., after driving out its king and abolishing the monarchy.

Augustus' signet ring was removed from his finger. His eyes were closed.

Eventually, only one person was left beside the ashes—Julia Augusta, widow and now daughter of the dead princeps.

Bowing to this reality, the dying man handed Agrippa the symbol of his authority:

Many senators, even though they had been appointed by the dictator, were inclined to accept his removal as a fait accompli.

Octavian's most urgent task was to make his position official.

Something more serious, though, was taking place in his personality: a gradual and growing loss of focus.

Gaius was now thirteen years old and well able to understand the seriousness of the situation.

In late 45 B.C., the eighteen-year-old Gaius Octavius settled into lodgings at Apollonia.

Resistance to change has been strong.

I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

Death is the same for the one who dies.

There are, I think, occasions when you know that you have arrived at the end of a long journey, when, even though your destination is still concealed from sight, you are somehow aware that when you turn the corner that lies just ahead of you, there it will be.

You know the mistake I made tonight ? It was believing in you. Well, Mr James Bond 007, whatever you were is gone. It belongs to another time. There are no more heroes any more.

pointing the way ahead and throwing pure, white light on to his immediate surroundings. Alex was at the start of a long tunnel

It was the week before my sixteenth birthday when the boy fell out of the door. Is that a good start?

I look on my divorce as a cleansing process. The water runs foul only when you step into the shower.' 'I'm sure.

There are, I think, occasions when you know that you have arrived at the end of a long journey, when even though your destination is concealed from sight, you are somehow aware that when you turn the corner that lies just ahead of you, there it will be.