Quotes About Time

Magic works on its own timetable; because it's organic energy, like a plant, you're not going to make it grow, or manifest, faster by tugging on it.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.

Some people might say, "Who would want to be 90?" And I say, Anyone who is 89.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.

Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance?

Prince, I warn you, under the rose,Time is the thief you cannot banish.These are my daughters, I suppose.But where in the world did the children vanish?

There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart.

Sometimes I wish I could just press a button and be through school and starting my real life,' I told him. 'This is your real life, Al,' he said, 'Don't start living in the future. That's like gulping down a piece of fudge cake and then asking yourself, 'Where'd it go?' You're missing the moment.

Changes in consciousness begin with art and take shape through discussion of art. But the process takes a long time and involves a lot of people working in many small ways.

My nose remembers more than my eyes. The sharp oily smell of eucalyptus combines with afternoon dust from the hockey field. But my heart feels the different then and now.

We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between.

getting older is not a gift. But we had better make it one or be left with the knowledge that we have been ungrateful for life itself.

Il susino è sfiorito. Chioma verde di foglioline giovani. Nessuno adesso potrebbe sospettare la bellezza mozzafiato di prima. Così per tante donne vecchie che per pochi giorni soltanto sono state belle.

But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.

But as fast as geography is coming under our control, the clock is exerting more and more tyranny over us.

Yes, I love that word "absorption" because I think that's my definition of happiness. I think all of us know we are happiest when we forget ourselves, when we forget the time, when we lose ourselves in a beautiful piece of music or a movie or a deep conversation with a friend or an intimate encounter with someone we love. That's our definition of happiness.

Hold this moment forever, I tell myself; it may never come again.

One wonders if the time will ever come when men . . . will lie down as gracefully and as ripe.

DILIO Mira, Dilio, sobre las acacias llueve. Los perros se desgañitan por la llanura verde. Mira, nene, sobre nuestros cuerpos, el fresco rocío del tiempo perdido.

Io guardo in questi ragazzi il riso dei loro morti quando venivano in chiesa, e, cantando, credevano di essere vivi per sempre. Ma gli anni spariti nel paese non sono mai trascorsi. Questa è una loro alba, e noi, noi siamo i morti.

A quanto pare, tutta la storia umana non fa altro che ripeterci una cosa: è solo ciò che è stato.

Abbiamo bisogno di molto tempo per accettare la brutalità del fatto di non essere più soli