Quotes About Transition

I see a bird like a cock, which means good news, but you yourself are very agitated. A road that looks bright. And you are on the first step. You are thinking of a hundred things at the same time. One road is closed and dark, and the other is open and full of light. Both could happen; it is your choice. There is a key; a problem will be solved. ... A small ship that is still in the harbor and has not yet started to set sail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Two hundred and thirty-two years and they wait until the country's falling apart before they turn it over to the brother!

The road we have taken to this point has not been easy. But then again the road to change never is.

Strange how a single conversation can change you. Or maybe it only seems that way in retrospect.

the worlds that they thought they'd left behind reclaimed each of them, I occupied the place where their dreams had been.

the world was shrinking, sympathies changing;

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I realized that justifying the past mattered less than planning what to do next.

It's like moving-in day on a college campus, except a large percentage of the people involved are middle-aged, in suits, and, along with you, charged with running the most powerful nation on earth.

The mood on the plane was bittersweet.

Mr. President-Elect," she said, "this is your holy-shit moment.

President Bush would end up doing all he could to make the eleven weeks between my election and his departure go smoothly.

This is it, Barack," Michelle said. "One last time. But don't expect me to do any campaigning. In fact, you shouldn't even count on my vote.

The change comes later. In about five years, although it seems like it's coming sooner all the time." "What change is that?" "When their eyes stop laughing. Their throats can still make the sound, but if you look at their eyes, you can see they've shut off something inside.

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The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you,' he said, 'by the grace of God.' (Walter Brueggemann)

I think it's great to have a new life every 10 years or so.

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The journey in between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life takes place.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place

Just now and then, maybe every few weeks and then only for minutes at a time, a breach appeared in the partition and I walked on through, because I have always taken that as a general rule of life: If a door opens, walk on through and at least take a look around.

In the end, the guards walked her out to her solitary old blue Pinto sitting in the parking lot, and she drove down the dark canyons to the freeway and the brighter lights of the Valley. She wasn't sure just why the thought of going home alone would frighten her. When she reached it, the place was quiet and normal as ever; but when she finally slept, toward six, it was not restful sleep.

To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.