Quotes About Time

Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.

Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.

Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.

The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.

When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not.

The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.

Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.