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Quotes About Calendar

We were traveling between a mountain and Thursday, Holding pages back on the calendar, Remembering every turn in the roadway: We hold that sky, we said, and remember. So magic a time it was that I was both brave and afraid. Some day like this might save the world.
~ William Stafford
Waiting for God" This morning I breathed in. It had rained early and the sycamore leaves tapped a few drops that remained, while waving the air's memory back and forth over the lawn and into our open window. Then I breathed out. This deliberate day eased past the calendar and waited. Patiently the sun instructed the shadows how to move; it held them, guided their gradual defining. In the great quiet I carried my life on, in again, out again.
~ William Stafford
The Gezer Calendar is a limestone inscription from the mid- or late 900s B.C., thought to be the earliest survival of written Hebrew. Discovered in A.D. 1908 at the site of the ancient city of Gezer in what is now southern Israel, the "calendar" briefly lists the months of the year by farming duties.
~ David Sacks
I wore no jewels save the pendant Brisbane had given me with its secret code—the code that had given me my first inkling that he loved me. It had not been so very long since he had given it to me, a year only; twelve leaves of the calendar torn away, a few dozen weeks from then to now. But how much change that year had wrought!
~ Deanna Raybourn
El calendario también lo encarcelaba en un tiempo anecdótico y lo privaba del otro tiempo que vivía dentro de él.
~ Elena Garro
It is the beginning and the end of the astrological calendar, and so it is said that children born on March 21 are ancient sounds who possess the wonder and innocence of newborns.
~ Elizabeth Alexander
There are several ways to mess up your life by fighting to make your calendar age match your felt age. I live in the Southwest, a part of the country with more than its share of fair skies, material wealth, and people who are trying not to be as old as they are.
~ Martha Beck
If Iran gains a nuclear weapon, we will need a new calendar in the world - it would change humanity that much. Iran will give these weapons to terrorists the world over, and your children and mine will step into the shadow of nuclear terrorism.
~ Trent Franks
Maybe one day there will be a snooker pin-up calendar if we all get in shape. I would be up for that, get some spray tan going.
~ Neil Robertson
I've Never Cared Much For Mondays. If I were the king of the world, I'd have Mondays removed from the calendar. Of course the problem is that Tuesday would become the new Monday, which would defeat the purpose.
~ Richard Paul Evans
My death will not be penciled in on someone's calendar.
~ Richelle Mead
If I had my way, I would remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
~ Roald Dahl
You already know the Gregorian calendar. It gets drummed into our heads in our allegedly "secular" "public" schools and everybody in our society who holds Power (banks, corporations, even governments) uses it. My system intends to break the conditioning/hypnosis created by this artificial uniformity.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
I found that as I flipped the days on the calendar, the worries I had about our relationship had began to diminish.
~ Nicholas Sparks
My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.
~ Bertrand Russell
In the year 1752 it was announced that the second of September would be followed by the fourteenth. The matter was merely one of wording, of course; time in its substance was not to undergo any change.
~ Emma Donoghue
Kreb blättert in seinem Kalender und antwortet, nein, zu schade, zu seinem großen Bedauern könne er bei dem Fest nicht dabei sein, habe er doch vor, ausgerechnet an diesem Abend allein zu Hause zu bleiben und sich anzuöden.
~ Éric Chevillard
Roger Bacon had complained that the calendar was "intolerable to all the wise, horrible to all astronomers, and ridiculed by all computists.
~ Amir Alexander
I keep everything in Notepad: shopping lists, to-do lists, recipe tasting notes, my blog content calendar, recipe inspiration, blog-post drafts.
~ Molly Yeh
The children start school now in August. They say it has to do with air-conditioning, but I know sadism when I see it.
~ Rick Bragg
We need more holidays to keep the social studies teachers on track.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion.
~ Samael Aun Weor
The Sumerians plotted the movements of the five planets they could see – Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn – and named a day after each. They then named one day after the Moon and another after the Sun, giving them a seven-day week.
~ Andrew Marr
Most people use their calendars as a repository of "orders" that come in. Someone throws an order to a manager for his time, and it automatically shows up on his calendar. This is mindless passivity. To gain better control of his time, the manager should use his calendar as a "production" planning tool, taking a firm initiative to schedule work that is not time-critical between those "limiting steps" in the day.
~ Andrew S. Grove