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Quotes About Time

Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity.
~ Reginald Heber
As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.
~ Reynolds Price
Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.
~ Richard Harris Barham
Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity.
~ Richard Henry Stoddard
I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.
~ Edwin Moses
There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runstime's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain.
~ Edwin Muir
So I step into the future, as bravely as I'm able, with my heart longing for a time I'll never see again.
~ Ekaterina Gordeeva
But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.
~ Elias Hicks
I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.
~ Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.
~ Elliott Carter
My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.
~ Emile M. Cioran
LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!
~ Emily Dickinson
I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
~ Epictetus
Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.
~ Eric Hoffer
We were now back at Smith Landing, and fired with a desire to make another Buffalo expedition on which we should have ampler time and cover more than a mere corner of the range.
~ Ernest Thompson Seton
Our problem wasn't that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.
~ Evan Williams
One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
~ Faith Evans
I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
~ Felicity Kendal
Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.
~ Ferruccio Busoni
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
~ Francois Rabelais
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
~ Francois Rabelais