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Quotes About Transition

Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.
~ Wellington Mara
You have to decide when it is time to move on. I was dancing on Broadway for many years. Then everyone was either getting injured or retiring and I was dancing with younger dancers.
~ Wendy Whelan
I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
~ William Howard Taft
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
~ William Wordsworth
It will take time to adapt, but I think I can handle it.
~ Yao Ming
And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.
~ Edward James Olmos
Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.
~ Franz Lehar
Reincarnation is happening all the time. Every moment we are going through a change. Our being isn't solid. Reincarnation is now.
~ Frederick Lenz
In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave Another year has burst upon the shore Of earthly being-and its last low tones, Wandering in broken accents in the air, Are dying to an echo.
~ George D. Prentice
Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.
~ Gladys Taber
Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.
~ Heinrich Heine
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
~ Horace
Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.
~ Horace
The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
~ James Russell Lowell
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.
~ James Russell Lowell
I think it was the right time for me to retire because nowadays tennis is too incredibly fast and you can say that my style tennis went out of fashion.
~ Jana Novotna
The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.
~ Jennifer Egan
If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.
~ Jennifer Granholm
You never know the last time you'll see a place. A person.
~ Jenny Han
Every time we go to sleep, it's a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.
~ Joseph Jarman