Quotes About Transition

Not all change qualifies as transformation.

The change came a long way back, but at first it didn't show. The manner remains intact for some time after the morale cracks.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

We cannot be rooted in the past forever. We must not be sentimental.

But you must be sure of what you want the land for. And as for your tenants, if they don't own the land, don't expect them to make sacrifices. It never works, you know. Besides, the transition shouldn't create dislocations. It isn't easy to shift from agriculture to industry.

I am a commuter, not between the city and the village, although I do this frequently; not between the inane idealism of the classroom and the stifling reality beyond it, which I must do for survival and self-respect. I am a commuter between what I am now and what I was and would like to be and it is this commuting at lightning speed, at the oddest hours, that has done havoc to me.

Each season is a forerunner of the next, and as the earth revolves, we learn to adjust, and consent to, the alterations.

From one hour to the next a life may change.... But as I have thought and said for years, acceptance is a key to strength and practice makes it easier.

New beginnings often started with the broken bits and shattered pieces of the old.

Rick had acquired a new cell number while I was a tree.

Hey,' she said, shutting the door behind her, and making herself comfortable in the large padded chair facing his desk, without being asked. She had no need to stand on ceremony with Mel, who was one of her oldest friends. 'How's Janine?' A few months ago, he'd married DS Janine Tyler, who'd been working on Hillary's team for three years. Now, with the marriage, Janine had moved to Witney nick, and Hillary had a new DS.

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It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.

nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother's machine, no matter what they thought; to turn off the light of their childhood and walk away, just as if they were turning out a light and leaving a room.

And so, as quietly as he had lived, he slipped out of town, leaving only a note behind: Well, that's that. I'm off, and if you don't believe I'm leaving, just count the days I'm gone. When you hear the phone not ringing, it'll be me that's not calling. Goodbye, old girl, and good luck. Yours truly, Earl Adcock P.S. I'm not deaf.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

Those days were easy in comparison with

every exit is an entrance to somewhere else.

Emotional identity drifts over a lifetime - if fast and far enough, one may encounter a stranger's heart where a friend's or lover's once dwelt.

I wonder now… were my tears for Alex and Al and all the others who had gone and who were yet to go? Or was I weeping for myself…and those who would remain?

And so the pact of timelessness between us was broken and I went from him into the darkening tunnel of the years.

No matter how important the present appeared, it soon turned to the past

But I know as soon as I pack my bags and step off these grounds, I'm going to get swallowed up by that woman you just met.