Quotes About Transition

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.

Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was good at and loved to do. But I developed a similar kind of love for music.

It was a weird stage of my life, to leave Simon & Garfunkel at the height of our success and become a math teacher. I would talk them through a math problem and ask if anyone had any questions, and they would say, 'What were the Beatles like?'

I've followed Brenda Bowen as she's moved from Henry Holt to Scholastic to Simon and Schuster to Hyperion and to HarperCollins. I have complete confidence that Brenda always knows the right questions to ask. I'm not sure another editor would be able to do that.

But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression.

What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.

I like moments of staleness and mildew, simply because it creates the lane for change.

Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over. Not to me. Not to them.

The last thing we want is to remain as we are.

When we experience panic, it means that we're about to cross a threshold. We're poised on the doorstep of a higher plane.

We want a rite of passage. We want to grow up.

The moment a person learns he's got terminal cancer, a profound shift takes place in his psyche. At one stroke in the doctor's office he becomes aware of what really matters to him. Things that sixty seconds earlier had seemed all- important suddenly appear meaningless, while people and concerns that he had till then dismissed at once take on supreme importance.

This is how command passes from a weak officer to a stronger. No rank alters; no papers are filed. Without a word, every man understands.

To change is to lose identity; yet to change is to be alive.

When God aims us in a new direction, we have to let go of what we've known, be willing to embrace the unfamiliar, and trust that He will sustain us on the journey.

after the initial pain of releasing our children there comes joy and peace, both for them and us.

Jeb Bush lost for many reasons, but the basic one is that he was running to win a race in a party that no longer existed. He was like a guy who showed up with a tennis racket at a bowling alley.

Howell hung up the phone and pressed his forehead against the cool glass of the booth. The world was suddenly a different place. He wasn't sure he liked it.

Growing up had made her crabby, which happens to the best of us.

Every violent death represents the climax of one story and an introduction to its sequel.

You can't go back to something once it's dead.

Climp. After Sloan's death, the two boys decided to move in with their dad. Joey was in the same graduating class she was. His brother

Maybe life is just a straight shot from the horrors of grade school to the horrors of the nursing home.

All the little birdies had flown out of this man's tree.