Quotes about Transition
So endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much further without becoming the history of a man.
- Mark Twain
The only person who likes change is a wet baby.
- Mark Twain
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
- Audre Lorde
As a living creature I am part of two kinds of forces--growth and decay, sprouting and withering, living and dying, and at any given moment in our lives, each one of us is actively located somewhere along a continuum between those two forces.
- Audre Lorde
But those who were young had no thought left for spring and those who still thought were not young any longer.
- Ayn Rand
She did not smile, but her face had the lovely serenity that can become a smile without transition.
- Ayn Rand
Begin now to be what you will be hereafter.
- St. Jerome
Maybe he'll be different from who he was and always is.
- Stephen Colbert
A tendency that's run through your family for generations can stop with you. You're a transition person — a link between past and future. And your own change can affect many, many lives downstream.
- Stephen Covey