Quotes about Transition

Special days, special moments don't last forever. Anyone knows that. Breezes of change blow hard and fast.

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

I spent four years at Manchester City and won three trophies. It was a big wrench to leave.

I had a great time in the NFL. To make it in the amount of time that I did was awesome; it's a dream come true, and hell, it gave me the opportunity to go wrestle.

There's no question, I guarantee you, that you will see more NFL players getting into wrestling. They have the personality for it.

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.

Often the trials we mourn are really gateways into the good things we long for.

I had toured around England endlessly throughout my teens, but when I came to the U.S. to perform on Broadway, that was a huge step.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.