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Quotes About Transformation

It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.
~ Kristen Stewart
That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable - and all the time we're being carved, and shaped, and whittled away.
~ Lauren Oliver
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
~ Lucretius
One day they'll let you out of that dry, empty cell. You'll return to the Separates, and you'll feel the rain once more. And you'll grow straight, this time, toward this sunlight. I know you will.
~ Lucy Christopher
In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.
~ Lynne Rae Perkins
The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.
~ M. E. W. Sherwood
The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.
~ Maggie Gyllenhaal
One person at a time, one company at a time.
~ Marc Benioff
Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.
~ Marianne Williamson
When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.
~ Mark Haddon
Honestly, I don't think Victoria has too many Secrets left... might be time to prayerfully consider a name change.
~ Mark Hart
Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.
~ Mark Twain
Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?
~ Mary E. Pearson
A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.
~ Mary Jo Bang
The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.
~ Mason Cooley
Everything is winged in this universe, even a rock! When the time comes, rock crumbles into tiny pieces and starts flying in the air!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes.
~ Michael Grant
The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and stick this guy in. Well, he has to be as new as the plot every time.
~ Michael Connelly
Time is the enemy of identity
~ Michael Moorcock
You've got to have fresh wardrobe. You can't just go out there looking like you did last time. That helps your transformation.
~ Mick Jagger
Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
~ Mike Tyson
The last time I saw Marilyn was in late 1959, when I appeared in Let's Make Love at Fox. The wide-eyed Marilyn I had first known was gone. This Marilyn was more beautiful than ever.
~ Milton Berle
We have a freer world because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the changes in China. Those two have been the main contributors to freedom in our time.
~ Milton Friedman