Quotes About Time

One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn't a clue. A day is a fuckin' eternity

It was frightening, though, how little time you got. You only became yourself when you were twenty-three or twenty-four. A few years later, you had an old man's chest hair. It wasn't worth it.

on and off, for almost a century.

For the time being, the newcomers could bask with impunity.

that would drag on inconclusively for most of the next three centuries.

The sun first catches the tops of the pyramids of Giza, which are already some fifteen hundred years old.

The war lasted ten years, so the story goes.

perhaps even thousands, before our imagined Aegean dawn in the year 1500 BCE.

All people suffer from the dread of death, but we are mostly troubled by the uncertainties of time and circumstance.

You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.

Remembering is just an invention of the mind... It means that if you want to, you can remember anything, whether it happened or not... You don't need a time machine if you can remember.

You ever notice how long it takes for things to happen when you know they're supposed to happen? My fake Walkman has a built-in alarm, and I set it for two in the morning and wear the headphones to bed, but before you can wake up you have to fall asleep, and I never DO fall asleep because I keep waiting for the alarm to go off.

You know you're getting old; there are certain signs. I walked past a cemetery, and two guys ran after me with shovels.

I mean, I'm not a kid anymore. I could go tomorrow. And I hope I go tomorrow. I haven't gone today yet.

I learned not to fear infinity, The far field, the windy cliffs of forever, The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow, The wheel turning away from itself, The sprawl of the wave, The on-coming water.

Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young. Sitting in the stands, we sense this, if only dimly. The players below us—Mays, DiMaggio, Ruth, Snodgrass—swim and blur in memory, the ball floats over to Terry Turner, and the end of this game may never come.

Collectively, the Mets are still both too young and too old to afford any but the most modest ambitions, but I think the time has arrived when they can look at each other with something other than pure embarrassment.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.

62 percent of respondents said that people often failed to stick to established deadlines, viewing them as general guidelines rather than must-do organizational mandates.

So huge was the architecture of the conflict between Islam and Byzantium that no Muslim banners would be unfurled again before the city walls for another 650 years – a span of time greater than that separating us from 1453 – but prophecy decreed that they would return.

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

Then the silence was broken by a whisper soft as a feather falling, yet which seemed to fill the whole Temple with sound: 'Follow me now, my father,' said the voice of Se-Osiris, 'for the time is short and we must be back before the morning if we would live to see the Sun of Ra rise again over Egypt.' Setna turned, and saw beside him the Bai or soul of Se-Osiris - a great bird with golden feathers but with the head of his son. 'I follow,' he forced his lips to answer....