Alan Paton Quotes

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

It was not an end, it was a beginging

The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

The end of one thing is just the beginning of another.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.

I'm starting a new chapter in my [[life], and you have no idea how much that means.

The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.

It's just the end of some things. And the beginning of others.

Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.

It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.

Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

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

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Sometimes I think change is a good thing.