Don McLean Quotes

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will show on your face and change it. But sad only for others, not for yourself. You will feel you have a kind of wisdom, very mistaken, but a mistake of some power to you and so you will sadly treasure it and grow it.

Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one.

To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

I've changed a lot, too! I'm different, too. I have far more in some ways to offer and far less in other ways to offer. That's life. And, you know, life goes on!

A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Some age, others mature.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.

Anytime new insight replaces an old assumption or a fossilized perception is the spring. New understandings sprout, new tolerances appear, and new curiosity draws you to previously dark places. Just as the sun shines earlier and longer in the spring, changes that seemed impossible appear to be possible with each new insight into your own health.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.

All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.

At the end of a song, someone's always different than they are at the beginning.

Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.

When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I am.

It's crazy what can happen in a decade and how much you can grow as a person and as a woman and truly find your voice.