Quotes About Waiting

You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.

Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat, deerflies and mosquitoes just like the men.

The first coffee of the morning is never, ever, ready quickly enough. You die before it's ready and then your ghost pours the resurrection potion out of the moka pot.

When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later.

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.

I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.

Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.

Better hope deferred than none.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.

Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.

If this cursed and fallen worldholds such beauty as what I see, Imagine the beauty of paradisethat's gladly waiting for me.

That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.But you also get kind of used to it.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

All things come to those who wait.

Patience! patience! You are always in a hurry, but God is not.