Quotes About Transformation

The children playing by the fountains will become old men, but nothing of this will have changed

There's a time in life when everything becomes ex—ex-athlete, ex-president, expatriate, x-ray.

What I found was a moment where the main character has to figuratively look at himself, as in the mirror. He is confronted with a disturbing truth: change or die.

In truth we do not go to Faery, we become Fairy, and in the beating of a pulse we may live for a year or a thousand years.

She recognized that the assassination had transformed him into a hero too: 'Now, I think I should have known that he was magic all along- but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with [him] and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

World War II did more than usher in unparalleled prosperity for the United States. It transformed America's foreign relations. The war devastated the Axis nations, which took years to recover. It also savaged America's allies, including the Soviet Union, which lost an estimated 25 million people during six years of fighting. Alone of the world's great powers the United States emerged immeasurably stronger, both absolutely and relatively, from the carnage.

Books can be burned," croaked Black. "They have a way of rising from the ashes," said Andreus.

Nevertheless, economic historians agree that the first Industrial Revolution was the most important event in the history of humanity since the domestication of animals, plants, and fire.

Suddenly I realize That if I stepped out of my body I would break Into blossom.

Across the road, tadpoles are dancing on the quarter thumbnail of the moon. They cant see, not yet.

I have torn myself out of many bitter places In America, that seemed Tall and green-rooted in mid-noon.

We all want to see Sunshine after Moonlight.

Beauty is revealed through the art of revision—whether one is revising a perfume, a dress Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or life itself. —DB

metamorphosis

When I go back to my hometown, it's grown so much that I get lost. I never needed a map when I lived there, but now I couldn't get around without GPS.

Everyone has to act out of character sometimes. It's like taking your clothes off: you feel free without your character but very naked, unprotected. Unfinished. So you get dressed again- you put on yourself-and then you know who you are.

We stand today united in a belief in beauty, genius, and courage, and that these can transform the world.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine...

It taught me to hope, said he, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before. Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice

These were reflections that required some time to soften; but time will do almost every thing…

What a revolution in her ideas!

Twelve years had changed Anne from the blooming, silent, unformed girl of fifteen, to the elegant little woman of seven-and-twenty, with every beauty except bloom, and with manners as consciously right as they were invariably gentle;

There was certainly at this moment, in Elizabeth's mind, a more gentle sensation towards the original, that she had ever felt in the height of their acquaintance. Elizabeth's changing relationship with Darcy on first visit to Pemberley, Chapter 43.