Quotes About Transition

And death, for those who live on, is the end of a chapter rather than the end of a book, and although the dead may have no more part to play as characters, their influence may continue right though the story.

Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment.

You will leave all your material wealth behind, but a wealth of knowledge goes with you.

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing.

Nasser's coup got rid of everything that was good in Egypt, and slowly replaced everything that was bad with something much worse.

A few of the people I had known were gone—even in that short time—back to the Midwest or to Times Square, or had been busted, or moved to Coffee Andy's in Hollywood, or gone to Golden Miami. They had disappeared, one day: One day youre here and thats fine, and the next day your gone and thats fine too, and someone has that very day come in to take your place whatever it might have been.

It's that magnificent interlude in New York between winter and spring, when you feel the warmth stirring, and you remember that the dreadful naked trees will inevitably sprout tiny green buds, soon. Everyone rushes into the parks, the streets--and you even forget that, very soon , summer will come scorchingly, dropping from the sky like a blanket of steam...

Because it's getting to be the blue hour, and that's the time when everything is revealed.

Interestingly, as I was writing this book, TapImmune (TPIV) left the small stock OTC Exchange and moved up to the NASDAQ Exchange, where stocks have to cost $ 5 or more. But I still just enter TPIV if I want to buy more shares, like I did in the past. And now my order is automatically sent to the NASDAQ, instead of the OTC exchange.

That's exactly what the job of parent is all about. It's about helping our children get out of our lives.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army. Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two.

Do not mourn me, friends I fall as a shooting star Into the next life

There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.

Life is a caravan, and on this journey we sleep in many tents. Tomorrow I shall sleep in a different tent.

My thoughts were gentle, not so long ago. I no longer have that luxury.

They's movement now. People moving. We know why, an' we know how. Movin' 'cause they got to. That's why folks always move. Movin' 'cause they want somepin better'n what they got. An' that's the on'y way they'll ever git it.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine.

At the moment we are in a transitional or 'bridge' moment in our literary world. The electronic 'faux book' format which we cling to is an example of what the critic Marshall McLuhan called 'rear-mirrorism'. What he meant by this is that we always see the new in terms of the old. We hold on to the past because we are nervous about the future or feel unsure how to handle it. Children and comfort blankets come to mind.

With his partner gone, Hastings lost his momentum. In 1920, he retired as an active member of the firm.1 The beneficiaries were Shreve and Lamb.