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Quotes About Time

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.
~ Henry David Thoreau
As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.
~ Henry David Thoreau
And by another year, Such as God knows, with freer air, More fruits and fairer flowers Will bear, While I droop here.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Like water spilt upon the ground--alas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass!
~ Henry Van Dyke
Learn to labour and to wait.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life like an empty dream flits by.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
... one should know the value of Life better than to pout any part of it away.
~ Hester Lynch Piozzi
It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.
~ Hilary Mantel
Don't let life pass you by before you realise that it was worth living.
~ Hillary Clinton
My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.
~ Hope Solo
I try to live my life one day at a time, and if I look too far in advance, I get really stressed.
~ Hope Solo
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
~ Horace
The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.
~ Horace
Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.
~ Horace
Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.
~ Horace Mann
We have every reason in time and eternity to rejoice and give thanks for the quality of our lives and the blessings we have been given.
~ Howard W. Hunter
We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.
~ Hugh Leonard
I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!
~ Iain Banks
Those who achieve happiness understand the basic fact that regardless of how much fun you're having or how many things you accomplish, life through the lens of history is incredibly short.
~ Ian K. Smith
Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!
~ Ingrid Betancourt
Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.
~ Isaac Marion