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Quotes About Time

The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.
~ Isaac McLellan
Plan your hours to be productive...Plan your weeks to be educational...Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
And anyway, life's too short.
~ J. K. Rowling
You're young and you have all your life ahead of you.
~ J. Lynn
Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.
~ J.R. Ward
Every year is vital in the life of a child.
~ Jack McConnell
What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one's life.
~ Jack McDevitt
The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equity has prevailed.
~ Jack Vance
It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.
~ James A. Baldwin
Many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic.
~ James Hillman
You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write?
~ James Lee Burke
...Drifting downstream in a row boat doesn't count against your life span.
~ James Patterson
All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel heat of man.
~ James Russell Lowell
Life is weather. Life is meals.
~ James Salter
Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
~ Jane Austen
Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.
~ Jane Hamilton
At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Life is short. But desire, desire is long.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Time-awareness does indeed watermark my books and my life.
~ Jane Hirshfield
It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.
~ Jane Jacobs
I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats.
~ Jane Wagner
The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you.
~ Jane Wagner
The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree...and think 25 to life would be appropriate.
~ Jay Leno
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
~ Jean de la Bruyere