Quotes About Transition

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.

He used to pimp and pull shakedowns. Now he rode shotgun to History.

My day has been too long. In the morning I saw the sons of the Unamis happy and strong; and yet, before the sun has come, have I lived to see the last warrior of the wise race of the Mohicans.

It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.

Making an espresso is a performance that lasts ninety seconds and then you're done. You go on to the next performance. You may get applause or you may get boos, and then you move on.

Do you want to come in? Take a deep breath. Everything is about to happen.

You can't step into the same River even once, And why would you want to? You can't

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

basement to the coalbin exit

I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

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.

Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

Anytime you're gonna grow, you're gonna lose something. You're losing what you're hanging onto to keep safe. You're losing habits that you're comfortable with, you're losing familiarity.

One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

I have no past--the steps have disappeared the wind has blown them away.

I want out of the freak show and into the main tent.

I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.

Having no sense at all of where he might be headed, Joe Buck simply meandered deeper and deeper into September

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

He reported sick on the 2d and left the army. When ready for duty he was assigned about Richmond and the seaboard of North Carolina. He applied to be restored to command of his division in the field, but the authorities thought his services could be used better elsewhere. He resigned his commission in the Confederate service, went to Georgia, and joined Joe Brown's militia, where he found congenial service, better suited to his ideas of vigorous warfare.

You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

Turning to him, Spurgeon said, "If you had gone up the way you came down, you could have come down the way you went up.

The small farm, a historian observed, was an unsurpassed school for boyhood but an intellectual prison for manhood.

Everything I have described so far seems to have happened to somebody else—to somebody else's father. But the death of a parent happens to you, and, once it starts, it never stops. It dislodges everything.