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Quotes About Time

It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.
~ George Eliot
He's as old as some trees.
~ Pat Burns
The tree does not die, it waits.
~ Hermann Hesse
I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.
~ Mary Russell Mitford
I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.
~ Richard Avedon
Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.
~ Robert Browning
the scythers, Time and Death, Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath
~ Robert Lowell
Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.
~ Sir John Davies
Well, I mean, taking time for your art is taking time for yourself, isn't it?
~ Lana Del Rey
Life is so short. Grudges are a waste of time. Laugh when you can, apologise when you should, and trust God with what you cannot change.
~ Nicky Gumbel
The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Building trust is a process. Trust results from consistent and predictable interaction over time.
~ Barbara M. White
Put your trust in me, let this love be. This is for real, let time stand still.
~ Smokey Robinson
I trust no one who hasn't time for music.
~ Jack White
A new yogi doesn't handstand on their first try, and a new teacher doesn't start out as a headliner. Be patient, and trust it's all going to add up and unfold in due time.
~ Kathryn Budig
At the time I could no more believe my eyes than now I can trust my memory.
~ W. G. Sebald
It takes people a while to trust you.
~ Karl Malone
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
~ Angelina Grimke
Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.
~ Robert C. Solomon
Time is what creates trust.
~ Ethan Hawke
Be trustworthy. Steadiness and integrity lead to energetic opening in the other as the blocks in relating dissolve away with deepening trust over time.
~ John Friend
People make suggestions on what to say all the time... Trust me.
~ George W. Bush