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Quotes About Time

Look at the bright side — at least Mondays only happen once a week.
~ Author Unknown
If each day is a gift, I'd like to know where to return Mondays.
~ John Wagner
By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out.
~ Author Unknown
The older generation thought nothing of getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning — and the younger generation doesn't think so much of it either.
~ Author unknown, c.1944
I love the sweet aroma of dawn— our daily opportunity to smell untouched time, to breathe in fresh hope... each morning being, a new beginning.
~ Terri Guillemets
A mother's kiss lovingly forgives the past, present, and future.
~ Terri Guillemets
Sewing forever, housework whenever.
~ Author Unknown
Midnight: The Pole of the hours; a pincushion on which sparkle all the seconds of a day.
~ Elbert Hubbard
October is fresh-faced April beautifully aged to wisdom.
~ Terri Guillemets
There are two times of year: October and waiting for October.
~ Internet meme
Thyme is of the essence.
~ Internet meme
Over time, the hurt doesn't hurt — only regret does.
~ Terri Guillemets
In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time.
~ Author Unknown
You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.
~ Polish Proverb
PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Leave this military hurry and adopt the pace of Nature. Her secret is patience.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't exist with nature without patience because everything in nature happens with such an easy, flowing manner. You get out of step, and you miss it. It's gone.
~ Tom Brown, Jr.
...like stealing the juice from tomorrow's fruit.
~ Terri Guillemets
The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer time.
~ Lady Aberdeen
A photograph is memory in the raw.
~ Terri Guillemets
It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station.
~ Michael Herr
...since a lunch was cancelled because of the snow, I was suddenly given a few hours of unexpected time and managed to get down a poem that had been pursuing me for days.
~ May Sarton, 1971
Conservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead.
~ Leo Rosten
Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
~ E. B. White, Charlotte's Web