Quotes About Time

They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods

I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was a man.

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of Nature is planning them too.

How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.

There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.

Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.

I laugh, that there's a certain kind of cyclical nature to life and that I don't have to worry because whatever isn't there right now, it's coming back again.

Nature does require her times of preservation.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.

Yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go?

Human nature in time is engraved in history.

Understand one thing very clearly. Because all this: your time, this world, your life in it and all of those opportunities, they have a deadline.

You are the trembling of time, that passesbetween vertical light and darkened sky,

A hundred lifetimes wouldn't suffice to see all the beauty in one acre of land.

A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite.

The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

My roses are my jewels, the sun and moon my clocks, fruit and water my food and drink.

The world moves fast, and so do the bees. Can we find the stillness to see them?

The ripen fruit is for a sacred season.

The mechanics of Nature ensures that the shadow of yesterday doesn't eclipse the dawn of tomorrow.

Lailah Gifty Akita