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Quotes About Time

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
~ Sappho
I declare That later on, Even in an age unlike our own, Someone will remember who we are.
~ Sappho
You will have memories Because of what we did back then When we were new at this, Yes, we did many things, then - all Beautiful...
~ Sappho
The more nots you are, the more committees you might end up on. Not being not can mean being less likely to end up doing this kind of work. Given that diversity work is typically less valued by organizations, then not being not can mean having more time to do more-valued work.
~ Sara Ahmed
In your thirties something strange starts to happen. It's a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm — you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you're not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.
~ Sara Gruen
Age is terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back
~ Sara Gruen
After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.
~ Sara Gruen
My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if I can speak firsthand about the Spanish flu, the advent of the automobile, world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik — that's all ancient history now. But what else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That's the reality of getting old, and I guess that's really the crux of the matter. I'm not ready to be old yet.
~ Sara Gruen
But it all zipped by. One minute Marlena and I were up to our eyeballs, and the next thing we knew the kids were borrowing the car and fleeing the coop for college. And now, here I am. In my nineties and alone.
~ Sara Gruen
She looks at her watch - a real one, with arms. Those digital ones came and went, thank God. When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn't mean you should?
~ Sara Gruen
Age is a terrible thief.
~ Sara Gruen
I paused beneath the arched entrance, where the drawbridge had once been, imagining all the people who had passed in and out over the centuries, every one of them carrying a combination of desire, hope, jealousy, despair, grief, love, and every other human emotion; a combination that made each one as unique as a snowflake, yet linked all of them inextricably to every other human being from the dawn of time to the end of it.
~ Sara Gruen
La edad es una ladrona implacable. Justo cuando empiezas a tomar el pulso a la vida te arranca la fuerza de las piernas y te encorva la espalda.Produce dolores y enturbia la cabeza y silenciosamente infesta a tu mujer de cáncer.
~ Sara Gruen
age is a terrible theif
~ Sara Gruen
a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail, their hair as fine as mist. Most of them are a good decade younger than me, and this astounds me. Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.---- There are five of them now, white headed old things huddled together and pointing crooked fingers at the glass.
~ Sara Gruen
90/93-year-old Jacob wonders as he gazes at his aged reflection, 'When did I stop being me?
~ Sara Gruen
Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back.
~ Sara Gruen
Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse
~ Sara Gruen
She looks at her watch—a real one, with arms. Those digital ones came and went, thank God. When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn't mean you should?
~ Sara Gruen
But then in your thirties something strange starts to happen. It's a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm—you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you're not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.
~ Sara Gruen
Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse. Metastatic
~ Sara Gruen
Actually, it's not so much that I've forgotten. It's more like I've stopped keeping track.
~ Sara Gruen
Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back.
~ Sara Gruen
Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently
~ Sara Gruen