Quotes About Time

You can't step into the same river twice.

I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day, but no change at all ivry fifty years.

Everything passes; everything wears out; everything breaks.

What is actual is actual only for one time, and only for one place.

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; then let it come.

We measure success and depth by length and time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.

As time requireth, a man of marvellous mirth and past times, and sometimes of as sad gravity, as who say: a man for all seasons.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.

The clock struck eleven with the respectful unobtrusiveness of one whose mission in life is to be ignored.

Steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and cheerful as a cricket.

A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

The sages and heroes of history are receding from us, and history contracts the record of their deeds into a narrower and narrower page. But time has no power over the name and deeds and words of Jesus Christ.

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

We have lived and loved together Through many changing years; We have shared each other's gladness, And wept each other's tears.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.

John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.

Every dogma has its day.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time.

Other times, other customs.

If you want the time to pass quickly, just give your note for 90 days.

History is a stern judge.