Quotes about Transition
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.
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
— St. Augustine
As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.
— Margaret Atwood
The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
— Milan Kundera
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
— Lucille Ball
But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?
— Madeleine L'Engle
Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways.
— Elton John
The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.
— Samuel Beckett
A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.
— Robert Frost
You're not a book person. And now you're not an internet person? What does that leave you?
— Rainbow Rowell
No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.
— Maya Angelou
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
— Frederick Buechner