Quotes About Time

Se bem que Benjamin Zambraia seja um senhor bastante conservado. Melhor: um rapaz recém-envelhecido.

My prime of youth is but a frost of cares;My feast of joy is but a dish of pain;My crop of corn is but a field of tares;And all my good is but vain hope of gain:The day is past, and yet I saw no sun;And now I live, and now my life is done.

I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.

And still to-morrow's wiser than to-day. We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons no doubt will think us so.

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

Like steam from a cup of hot tea that fogs our glasses, false urgency of matters at hand blurs our vision to important things in the distance.

Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply?

Youth and love and a summer day— What fairer gifts could the gods bestow? Ah, could the golden time but stay, Of youth and love and a summer day!

The sun tires of summer and sighs itself into autumn.

A day on Jupiter's moon lasts less than five hours — just like Saturday and Sunday on Earth.

You ever take a nap so good that you thought you missed the school bus. But it's Sunday… and you're 32.

I'll tell you how the Sun rose – A Ribbon at a time....

Some men expend all the fury of a twelvemonth in one red-hot paragraph of five minutes.

Love is a four-letter word.

Word is a four-letter word.

Tattoo the pristine flesh What is permanent anyway? This ink only lasts 'til the grave, Time will decompose That which we did compose.

"Count that day won," he sings, "when, turning on its axis, this earth imposes no additional taxes."

This morning's tea makes yesterday distant.

In the country! Oh, in the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time.

There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure.

Snow and adolescence are the only problems we can think of that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.

the body is a clock — bones tick and tock years gather in flesh an alarm set for death

There is no such thing as the future until it is the present.