Top 363 Transition Quotes

I’ve always been Sarah. My gender identity has always existed. I’ve always been a woman. Gay people aren’t straight before they come out as gay, and transgender people are who they are before they come out and transition.
Sarah McBride
When you’re running next to a guy who’s about to lay it up in transition, you just get out of the way because you know Giannis is coming to block it.
Malcolm Brogdon
I’m all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
Gillian Flynn
I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
Adam Lambert
I used to look like an American flag. The Padre uniform makes me look like a taco. Actually, the transition has been great. I’ve made 25 new friends, and I never thought I wanted to be anything other than a Dodger, but this is fun.
Steve Garvey
My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources. Oil is a very valuable resource for life – electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era.
Hugo Chavez
I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition.
Bruce Feirstein
The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar.
Martin Feldstein
It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women’s rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
Major Owens
The transition from soccer to fashion was an organic one.
Edgar Davids
Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.
C. J. Mahaney
As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result will be compensated by long-term gain. A pledge to re-engage energetically with a democratic Ethiopia would act as a catalyst for reform.
Eskinder Nega
Make no mistake: business forces, if used long-sightedly, are the tools for leveraging new consumer behaviors, new and smarter ways of production, and for accelerating the transition to a sustainable world.
Guilherme Leal
Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.
Brigitte Nielsen
To a lot of MMA fighters, pro wrestling is a very popular thing and I’m very thankful for them to try and make the transition into professional wrestling. But then they figure out its not as easy as a lot of people think.
Aleister Black
I’ve had an advantage; I’ve had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn’t happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.
Steve Forbert
My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He brought an entirely different style to what we were doing.
Tom Brokaw
Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.
Bill Drayton
A 7-footer who hits a step-back jumper – that’s a pretty unicorn-like thing. Or someone who blocks a shot off the top of the backboard, pushes it in transition, and finds a shooter in the corner – that’s pretty unicorn-like.
Mohamed Bamba
Most startups flame out or just muddle along. Your chances of spotting a unicorn, pre-horn, are incalculably small. But if, knowing that, you still want to toss aside your cushy job, at least listen to corporate vets who have made the transition.
Daniel Lyons
My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy’s, I remember vividly.
Frank Rich
I feel I've made the transition from model to actress,

I feel I’ve made the transition from model to actress, but I’m not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O’Neill – we all know that a few films don’t mean all that much.
Maud Adams
Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition?
Twyla Tharp
We have a very structured process for taking in refugees. It takes almost two years to transition from another country into the United States through the refugee process.
James Lankford
My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing, of pictures and words.
John Updike
As the greatest and last major crisis before 1836, the panic of 1819 holds considerable interest for the study of business cycles and for the present day. It was an economy in transition, as it were, to a state where business cycles as we know them would develop.
Murray Rothbard
The transition to WWE has been an incredible road. It’s been great, it’s been difficult, it’s been motivating, and it has allowed me as a person to just completely see myself differently and allowed me to grow in a different perspective with their input.
Aleister Black
The transition from football to futsal is very difficult, as this is a shorter and faster version. We have no time to think, but I’m trying to adapt the best I can.
Cafu
But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.
Timothy Garton Ash
Gender transition isn’t about gender. It’s about literally making yourself a better person because you know that’s a better you.
Vivienne Ming
We want to bring awareness for all those cats still searching for their forever home and not only help them find their perfect match but also make the transition home a success.
Hannah Simone
We’re competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.
John Callahan
Designers want their clothes and their shows to be absolutely perfect, exactly as they imagined, and there is a great deal of work that goes into doing that. Some collections can tell a whole story, from the first look to the last. The way the colors and the clothes transition is very interesting.
Lucky Blue Smith
There is a fundamental shift that social media necessitates in business today – the need to transition from ‘Me First’ to ‘We First’ thinking.
Simon Mainwaring
I’ve never used a foam pit or an air bag before. I learned my tricks over time, and double corks have been a slow transition in my pipe riding.
Scotty Lago
Although I’ve watched myself making the transition from being a girl to being a woman, I still feel 15 years old. My reflection disagrees.
Jaime Winstone
Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
Edgar Mitchell
After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.
Karen Mills
I took ballet dancing forever, and there was a natural transition into acting.
Judy Greer
I applaud the work of Clean Power Lake County in their leadership to call for Lake County to build a just transition from coal to clean energy, and I’m proud their work will be highlighted on the national stage for TV viewers around the country.
Brad Schneider
Luckily for me the public have known me before my transition and I’ve always had the same body type.
Carmen Carrera
Now that I’ve experienced ageism, I don’t regard it as a bad thing. It’s been a transition to something more exciting and maybe edgier.
Jane Seymour
We need to really get very serious about a transition toward new and renewable sources of energy.
Patricia Espinosa
As to the Amazon itself, the transition from conservation to sustainable development was a huge awakening since conservation was a western concept and strategy to encourage the developing world to protect biodiversity resources for the sake of future generations and the wellbeing of the planet.
Yossi Ghinsberg
I’m 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I’m perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.
Carl Paladino
By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.
Moshe Sharett
As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Around 20. I’d been trying to transition from the streets to the music business, but I would make demos and then quit for six months. And I started to realize that I couldn’t be successful until I let the street life go.
Jay-Z
Episodic TV is notoriously brutal because just when you think ‘I’ve got this, I know this character’ you can pick up the script for series four and you die in the first episode – or your character suddenly transitions from a woman to a man.
Zawe Ashton
Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.
George Gaylord Simpson