Quotes About Transition

I find that the world is changing much, much faster than I can even bitch about it.

In the world we grew up in, our most ingrained economic and political habit was growth; it's the reflex we're going to have to temper, and it's going to be tough.

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring, that it occasioned a great deal of talk.

The mere thought that the fighting will soon end fills Patton with dread. "Peace is going to be hell on me," he writes to his wife, Beatrice.

aware that it is the year in which he will remarry, father a new child, and vote Republican for the first time in his life.

to retire is to expire.

few months before heading

That is what I mean when I say that we die many deaths in the course of our lives: The teenager in you dies, the college student in you dies, the single unattached you dies, the version of you that's a parent of an infant dies, and so on. Once each of these mini-deaths occurs, there's no going back. Maybe "dies" is a bit harsh, but you get the idea: We all keep moving forward, progressing from one stage or phase of our lives to the next.

had to look back before you moved forward.

When I got out of baseball, the first thing I did was enroll in Carroll College (now Carroll University) to finish the degree I started at Clemson. Fortunately, all of my credits transferred. I had one year left and went back full time. I think I needed 24 or 26 credits. I commuted back and forth from Hales Corners to Waukesha and got my degree.

There are not many who do leave on their own terms. I certainly didn't.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Youth is when you are allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you are forced to.

It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.

It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.

You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different.

Our lives can change with every breath we take.

I did not win anything at Leverkusen so to win six titles in four years with Bayern shows the move was worthwhile.

Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.

I arrived in London and I was terrified. I never wanted to be a celebrity - one minute I was in school and the next I was in London talking to people at a record company. If anything, I didn't feel in any way worthy.