"I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change."

Change, Now

18

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change."

Exlpore more Change quotes

"It is so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."

John Green, American Author

Change, Freedom, Truth, Life

"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Change, Power, Future, Wisdom, Truth

"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Change, Life, Work, Love

"America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Change, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational, Power

"Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Change, Birds

"A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a person can never set foot in exactly the same river on any given day, we are different each day. Yesterday made us, but the past cannot contain nor restrain us. We can never mentally scroll backward and be who we used to be. We must move forward in the stream of life until the day that our life force dries up and we return to dust."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Change, Personality, Experience, Past

"We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Change, Fear, Life, Comfort

"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Change, Action, Attitude, Acceptance

"It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

Change, Danger, Life, Awareness

"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."

Jim Rohn, American Businessman

Change,

Explore more quotes by Philip Levine

"There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory."

People

"It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work."

Work

"My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs."

Poetry

"I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home."

Home

"I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves."

Identity

"But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity."

Work

"But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet."

Old

"For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion."

Thought

"No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you."

Writing

"If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem."

Voice