Quotes about Transition
Two hundred and thirty-two years and they wait until the country's falling apart before they turn it over to the brother!
- Barack Obama
The road we have taken to this point has not been easy. But then again the road to change never is.
- Barack Obama
It's like moving-in day on a college campus, except a large percentage of the people involved are middle-aged, in suits, and, along with you, charged with running the most powerful nation on earth.
- Barack Obama
The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you,' he said, 'by the grace of God.' (Walter Brueggemann)
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is.
- Barbara Kingsolver
I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Having children was not like people said. Forget training them in your footsteps; the minute they put down the teething ring and found the Internet, you were useless as a source of anything but shoes and a winter coat.
- Barbara Kingsolver
That's high school for you, a bevy of people unfit for adult life encounters in any form.
- Barbara Kingsolver
No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
- Barbara Kingsolver
People change, she said. Not everything stays with you all your life.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The tree was intact, not cut or broken by wind. What a waste. After maybe centuries of survival it had simply let go of the ground, the wide fist of its root mass ripped up and resting naked above a clay gash in the wooded mountainside. Like herself, it just seemed to have come loose from its station in life.
- Barbara Kingsolver