Change Over Time Quotes

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

All religions undergo historical face lifts.

Nearly a decade of time is enough for everybody to change, quite a bit.

History is not was. It is.

It's like with me, I feel like I was never one of those rappers that, you know, stayed in one time warp.

What was I like as a kid? The same as I am now, just smaller with a higher voice.

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people have been making decisions that irrevocably shaped the world that we live in today; just as today, we are making subtle, irrevocable decisions that people of the future will remember as revolutions.

The World Coming Down tour was around four years ago, and other than the wear and tear we've all sustained in the last four years, nothing much has changed.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.

I have grown as time has gone on.

If you knew me before Myspace, you'd probably thought I'd have been a scholar teaching philosophy in a university my whole life. If you met me before college, you'd probably have thought I'd be a musician for my entire life.

You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

Back in 1994 I really didn't enjoy myself, but for the last couple of years I have enjoyed myself much more.

Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.

The world is very different today than it was in 1968.

Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946.

We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old selves, and so on and on; and if we unpack our selves, the full album appears. Every moment is a part of the following moment, and we are all a continuum.

Time will change who is in power.

I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.

It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.