All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
Gail Sheehy

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France

Because as a youngster I longed to see the Black man free and I longed to see anyone stand up for us.
Louis Farrakhan

He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.
Ronald Blythe

How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.
Burl Ives

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.
Rick Derringer

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.
Julia Margaret Cameron

I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
Maggie Smith

I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.
Leslie Caron

I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.
Kent McCord

I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together.
Sonny Rollins

I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself.
Linda Evans

Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us, not about me. That is the real hole the Dodgers filled in my life.
Gil Hodges

So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil.
Walter Salles

The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
Tatum O'Neal

Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
Abba Eban