Quotes About Time

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.

Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.

We all have souls of different ages

Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Age isn't important until you run out of it.

You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

People ask me how long it took to make a work. I reply by giving them my age.

How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese.

I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.

As long as you are curious, you defeat age.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.

Some things get better with age. Like me.