Quotes about Change

You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore.

Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.

Funny how you lose sight of some things and memory others.

The one set of plans she had made—getting away from Sweet Home—went awry so completely she never dared life by making more.

It was an opportunity to intervene at the heart of the problem: to bring God and language to natives who were assumed to have neither; to alter their diets, their clothes, their minds; to help them despise everything that had once made their lives worthwhile and to offer them instead the privilege of knowing the one and only God and a chance, thereby, for redemption. (227)

So he had said always, so she would not have to be afraid of the change—the falling away of skin, the drip and slide of blood, and the exposure of bones underneath. He had said always to convince her, assure her, of permanency.

Listen to me. You are about to find out what it takes, how the world is, how it works and how it changes when you are a parent. Good luck and God help the child.

Sometimes. Sometimes it's a ambulance. Today it's a hearse.

Listen to me. You are about to find out what it takes, how the world is, how it works and how it changes when you are a parent.

Other people went crazy, why couldn't she? Other people's brains stopped, turned around and went on to something new...

Maybe I am different now, Twyla. But you're not. You're the same little state kid who kicked a poor old black lady when she was down on the ground. You kicked a black lady and you have the nerve to call me a bigot.

Loggers move on after they destroy a forest.