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Quotes About Transition

Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.
~ J. M. Coetzee
Maybe I live in what is for me the wrong time.
~ Jack Finney
I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.
~ James Franco
The new celebrity thing is going to take some time to get used to because I really am not used to that!
~ Jason Momoa
It feels strange to have spent much time wishing for something, for someone and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.
~ Jenny Han
If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again.
~ John Mayer
Healing is a process. Sometimes it's quick, and other times it's gruelingly long. You're the only person who knows when it's time to move on and let go.
~ Jonathan Sadowski
It was really an exciting time trying to find my way from being a boy to becoming a man—being toe to toe and eye to eye with grown men, even though I was only 11 or 12.
~ Karch Kiraly
We should probably all pause to confront our past from time to time, because it changes its meaning as our circumstances alter.
~ Karen Armstrong
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
~ Lucretius
My sense is that being a First Lady is a full-time job, but I'll know more when the time comes.
~ Michelle Obama
Gather kittens while you may, Time brings only sorrow; And the kittens of today; Will be old cats tomorrow.
~ Oliver Herford
I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model
~ Rachael Leigh Cook
Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
~ Dalai Lama
Time and death sleep side by side.
~ Garth Nix, Abhorsen
Kamila Shamsie, Kartography
~ This world is out of date
Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.
~ Sara Sheridan
Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
~ Anne Tyler
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.
~ James Henry Breasted
After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.
~ Jack Irons
I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.
~ Melanie Roach
I used to not be into the fancy ones. I used to eat goo balls all the time.
~ Abbi Jacobson
I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
~ Abel Ferrara
As an actor, often you're stuck with these scenes in which a great period of time is in between them - for example, if you do a biopic, it might be a year, it might be a decade, you never know.
~ Aden Young