Grace Lee Boggs Quotes

Change, like healing, takes time.

Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

It takes a long time to bring about change.

Change won't happen overnight.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.

Sometimes we have to be patient because the one thing that is inevitable in life is evolution. Whether it comes at the pace that we are expecting it or not, it’s inevitable.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

I love to watch times change!

Time brings all things to pass.

Philosophy changes day by day.

The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it. You can't fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can't go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

The world has changed profoundly since our programs were first established.

Times change and you have to adapt.

Times do keep changing - thank God.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

Change isn't easy, it takes time.

People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.

The trouble with progress is that it tends to happen slowly and quietly. It's not necessarily going to shout about itself, or make the nightly news like a disaster or a scandal would.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.