Quotes about Transition

Acorns were good till bread was found.

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

New roads; new ruts.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!

The day which we fear as our last is but the birth-day of our eternity; and it is the only way to it.

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember especially because the transitions from life to death and back to life are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it.

You can't live in this world but there's no where else to go.

I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost. I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future, and maybe that's why it happened right there and then, that strange red afternoon.