Quotes About Transition

Un tren que parte es la cosa del mundo que más semejanza tiene con un libro que se acaba. Cuando los trenes vuelvan, abríos, páginas nuevas.

Agur -murmuró Celipín, poniéndose en marcha. Desapareció entre las sombras de la noche. La geología había perdido una piedra y la sociedad había ganado un hombre.

A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

The heterodoxy of one age will become the orthodoxy of the next.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable and those who move.

When you are finished changing, you're finished.

with an alteration in the mode of assessment, which I thought not for

Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, "There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

The Bisy Backson is always going somewhere, somewhere he hasn't been. Anywhere but where he is.

BERRI: "Yes," I remember my first word in American English was "yes," and I remember as a boy speaking quickly, effortlessly, without a trace of an accent in American English. And, just as swiftly, I remember losing my Hebrew vocabulary, as my parents spoke German at home, which I understood but never spoke.

There is no worse preparation for adulthood than having been a child.

It's hard to become an adult in the place where you grew up. Because you can never escape who you were.

When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.

My legs are very wobbly now. I've always been slightly unsteady on my pins, but I do find myself swaying about a bit and I hope it isn't anything serious, because if I couldn't walk, I would be in a jam. But there will come a moment when I realise my political life is over. My hearing is absolutely completely gone! It's lovely, in the sense that I go along the street and I don't hear any traffic noise, but I don't hear anybody saying anything.

Say there's this thing you want, this thing that seems more important than everything, this thing you've been waiting for because it will make you into something else. And then you get a chance at it and it's almost as if you don't want to change. Because you'll miss the person you were before.

It's hard to explain. Say there's this thing you want, this thing that seems more important than everything, this thing you've been waiting for because it will make you into something else. And then you get a chance at it and it's almost as if you don't want to change. Because you'll miss the person you were before" -Sam

The hardest part of ending is starting again.

The time between basketball season and football season is my equivalent to being cast into the phantom zone.