Quotes About Transition

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

I was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same

Actually, I think that turning 29 was more difficult, because once I turned 29, I anticipated 30 for the whole year, so by the time 30 came around it really wasn't that bad.

I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

I just feel like there hasn't been enough time away from all this other stuff and into this new world or sort of big world that it hasn't worn off yet.

Everyone - particularly my female friends I speak to - all say 'I wouldn't be in my twenties again if I was paid.' It's a difficult time.

I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

We're all united in this, that every human being migrates through time, that the place we grew up in in our childhood is gone when we're in our 50s and 60s and 70s.

I think things get a lot better after high school. I think the ones that struggle during that time tend to have better experiences after.

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

But as soon as one is at rest in this world off he goes on something else to worry about.

So endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much further without becoming the history of a man.

he got up and moved in clouds and darkness out at one door as she brought song and sunshine in at the other.

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who have gone on to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.