Quotes about Change
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.
— Helen Keller
To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected
— Thomas Paine
He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
— Oscar Wilde
I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.
— Charles Dickens
No matter what our age or what kind of problems we have, we can begin to make positive changes today.
— Louise Hay
One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is time to be old To take in sail.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
— Martin Luther
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
— GK Chesterton
Why should anybody wait to do what is right until everybody does it?
— Wendell Berry
I don't remember when I did not know Port William, the town and the neighborhood. My relation to that place, my being in it and my absences from it, is the story of my life. That story has surprised me almost every day—but now, in the year 1986, so near the end, it seems not surprising at all but only a little strange, as if it all has happened to somebody I don't yet quite know. Certainly, all of it has happened to somebody younger.
— Wendell Berry