Quotes about Transition

Grow up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

Acorns were good till bread was found.

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

New roads; new ruts.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!

The day which we fear as our last is but the birth-day of our eternity; and it is the only way to it.

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember especially because the transitions from life to death and back to life are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it.