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Quotes About Time

Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
~ Edward Abbey
We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.
~ Edward Abbey
Time is not important, but art is.
~ Edward Betts
These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.
~ Edward Boyden
The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.
~ Edward Forbes
Time, and the grand gesture of forgiveness, helps to heal old wounds.
~ Edward Kowalczyk
We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.
~ Edward Norton
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I like to cook good meals, especially when I have a lot of time.
~ Ekaterina Gordeeva
I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and much preferred the slow taffy-pull of time that you get with opiates.
~ Elaine Equi
You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.
~ Eleanor Porter
Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one is smaller.
~ Elif Safak
To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Morning Glory's introduction to the magical ways of the Goddess, manifest in our time, has enlarged my understanding of Pagan ways, enriching my spirit and imagination.
~ Elinor Gadon
A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing.
~ Elizabeth Hardwick
The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.
~ Ellen Key
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
~ Emile M. Cioran
IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.
~ Emily Dickinson
I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.
~ Enya