Quotes about Transition
Most parents' goal is to launch their children into the world with all the tools they need to make it on their own.
— Deborah Raney
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
— Seneca
Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
— John Milton
Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.
— Wendell Berry
The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.
— Jurgen Habermas
Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people into frail old age, and undertaken too soon, it may preempt other possibilities.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what proceeds it.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
In the transition to statism, every infringement of human rights has begun with a given right's least attractive practitioners
— Ayn Rand
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