Quotes About Time

Life moved on like a river, and water could not long remember the bruise it had received from a rock upstream.

I'm no spring chicken. The clock goes and Bessie goes. Only my machinery can't be fixed.

As much as I love computers, I can't imagine getting an excellent education from any multimedia system. Rather than augmenting the teacher, these machines steal limited class time and direct attention away from scholarship and toward pretty graphics.

Beyond a certain point we reach repetition and discover we are on the way back. Thus, life has no purpose beyond what it is at this moment.

Patience isn't a gift. It is learned.

Sixty seconds is a long time on the battlefield.

Time is like an aeroplane after take off. It is always moving and only goes in one direction.

In Cadaques, time is suspended in such a way that days spent here are not counted in the ageing process.

The secret of getting things done quickly is not to hurry.

Time is fixed and time is flexible. It is an invention by man and the curse of man. We all need more time.

Don't let baby slip too quickly from your fingers. Hang on tight until she's ready to go. And then hang on a little longer.

The present time is the best time for reminiscing the pasts.

There are at least 365 days in a year. You can do 300 days working with pay, 60 days working and praying without pay, and 5 days of rest

A broken home is not a broken life. A broken promise is not a broken responsibility. But a broken time for everything is a broken future.

Not everybody is born with perfect qualities. And not everyone will grow up with extraordinary achievements. Time is generous to those who want to succeed and conquer. Just be natural, because you yourself is unique in your own right.

The present world is a changing environment and people can only adapt or neglect the pressures of time.

There is no time limit for caring. And don't wait for anybody to look for you or ask about you if you don't have time for everything.

You can play in the pond all the time that you want. Just make sure you are not in a pit.

Anybody you once loved will always be a part of your life story.

Cherish the time with your parents. Our time will come just like theirs. Keep holding on to those memories, envisaging that good memories will not cease forever.

Live simple, but don't stop dreaming. The world is not yours to hold, but you can manage it in your own time.

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

We all die uneducated. But at least we will not feel quite so lost, so bewildered. We will have disenthralled ourselves from the merely contemporary. We will understand something—not much, but something—of our position in space and time.

We are all citizens of history.