Quotes About Time

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years.

Apparently, if you live until 75, you'll have spent 25 years in bed, so it makes sense to have a decent mattress.

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.

When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and it took 60, 70 years, and then natural gas. So it takes 100 years or more for some new breakthrough in energy to become the dominant source. Most people have difficulty coming to grips with the sheer enormity of energy consumption.

Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work.

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.