Quotes About Time

Times goin' change again an' things too, and that great British Empire goin' change too, 'cause time ain't got nothin' to do with these empires. God don't like ugly, an' whenever these big great empires starts to get ugly with the thing they does the Almighty puts His hands down once an' for all. He tell them without talkin', fellows, you had your day. (p.101)

What a miracle it is, this gift of time! Little marks on paper, the children of consciousness, sent down to us through the years.

Popular music is not history, but it can be read historically, dialogically, and symptomatically to produce valuable evidence about change over time. Popular music can mark the present as history, helping us understand where we have been and where we are going.

Be mindful of the future. But not at the expense of the moment.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passion, but now all gone, one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone like ghosts at cock-crow.

The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockrow.

One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.

Kissing don't last; cookery do!

Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them

Kissing don't last: cookery do !

Only time will set you free, just like me

All fear does is waste time.

It's hard to love There's so much to hate Hanging on to hope When there is no hope to speak of And the wounded skies above Say it's much too late So maybe we should all be praying for time

I could not continue just sitting and writing, looking after my daughter and my house, running merely to stay fit, pursuing only what could not be seen, watching the seasons cycling past without ever quite belonging to them.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

For the people of that flowAre new, the oldNew to age as the youngTo youth

I know that no one would live outThirty years, fifty years if the world were endingWith his life.

Among days// Having only the force/ Of days//Most simple/ Most difficult

Once the singing was and is