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Quotes About Transformation

Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.
~ Muhammad Ali
Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.
~ Patricia Richardson
Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us.
~ Rachel Held Evans
Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runstime's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain.
~ Edwin Muir
I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.
~ Harold Brodkey
How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
~ Jane Austen
Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.
~ John Milton
We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME.
~ John Quincy Adams
Frank Zhang: lumbering klutz, child of Mars, part-time pachyderm.
~ Rick Riordan
A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.
~ Ryan Phillippe
In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.
~ Seneca the Younger
The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
~ Simone Weil
Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.
~ Solomon Burke
Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.
~ William Beebe
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
~ Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
There can come a time when change is so cataclysmic that it changes the fundamentals of how we do our politics.
~ Allan Lichtman
The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.
~ Arthur Smith
Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel.
~ Billy Corgan
Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".
~ Bob Dylan
The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.
~ C. S. Lewis
Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.
~ Caroline Norton
Even the most thorough change happens once choice at a time
~ Charles Eisenstein
Change isn't easy, it takes time.
~ Caroline Kennedy