Quotes About Transition

If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.

Just as night always turns into day, there will always be endings that turn into new beginnings

some quality that was there before has been stolen. The scholar is still there, thought Taliesin, but I believe that the poet has gone.

A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.

My lips are chapped from the winds of change.

It says something about the ugliness of September 11, 1777, that this boy woke up a Lutheran and went to bed a Quaker.

The happiness that follows sadness is never the same as that which came before it.

Wall Comes Down, No Big Whoop.

I like to call him the current president because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary.

And I walked across the room past all that was missing, through the door, and into the light that shone like a sweet wide smile over all that was actually there.

Parece inevitable, tan fuerte es la necesidad de esta música; nada puede interrumpirla, nada que venga del tiempo donde está varado el mundo; cesará sola, por orden. Esta hermosa voz me gusta sobre todo, no por su amplitud ni su tristeza, sino porque es el acontecimiento que tantas notas han preparado desde lejos, muriendo para que ella nazca. Y sin embargo, estoy inquieto; bastaría tan poco para que el disco se detuviera.

From the day I was born I have always loved action more than words. But now only words are left.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

Herzog abandoned this theme with characteristic abruptness

He had come into a view of mutability, and I too could see that one is only ostensibly born to remain in specified limits.

Death is good for some people.

me?utim i ovo naše sadašnje razdoblje nestaje, i to možda brže od svih ostalih.

With her death and the remarriage of my father, the children scattered. I was turned loose—freed, in a sense: free but also stunned, like someone who survives an explosion but hasn't yet grasped what has happened. I didn't know anything. At the age of eighteen, I didn't even know that I was an adolescent. Words like that came later, in the forties and fifties.

Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces.

The forecast is we kiss goodbye and never hello all kisses are then parting kisses

Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash blonde and gold. Her eyes were bright, big, clear, wet and shining, the colour of her cheeks was real, breaking close to the surface from the strong young pump of her heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood -- she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.

There is nothing like the plumbing fixtures to remind you that you're not in Kansas anymore. By

Looking him over, I realized that Robbie Feaver had turned an important corner in his life in the last few weeks; he remained good-looking, but worry and sleeplessness and depression and poor diet had worn on him in a way likely to be permanent. They had stolen some of his glory. Yet he'd maintained the show-must-go-on spirit, and had done his best to look his part.

Once we turn, it's new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty." Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. "Then dead pretty.