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Quotes About Time

You can not step into the same river twice.
~ Heraclitus
Just as the river where I step is not the same, and is, so I am as I am not.
~ Heraclitus
We never step in the same river twice.
~ Heraclitus
The river where you set your foot just now is gone those waters? hiving way to this, now this.
~ Heraclitus
Into the same rivers we both step and do not step; we both are and are not.
~ Heraclitus
Time is a child playing dice; the Kingly power is a child's.
~ Heraclitus
Upon those who step into the same rivers different and ever different waters flow down.
~ Heraclitus of Ephesus
You can't go home again. Your childhood is lost. The friends of your youth are gone. Your present is slipping away from you. Nothing is ever the same.
~ Heraclitus of Ephesus
You cannot step twice into the same river.
~ Unknown
You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
~ Unknown
Time. Compounding the expanding informational gap is the problem of organizational pressure and time. The salesman you're dealing with seems relaxed. His organization isn't visible.
~ Herb Cohen
You have got to own your days and live them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go by and none of them belong to you.
~ Herb Gardner
Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.
~ Herbert Butterfield
If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.
~ Herbert Butterfield
I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.
~ Herbert Hoover
It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths.
~ Herbert J. Muller
Timelessness is the ideal of pleasure.
~ Herbert Marcuse
Freie« Zeit, keine »Freizeit«. Letztere gedeiht in der fortgeschrittenen Industriegesellschaft, aber ist in dem Maße unfrei, wie sie durch Geschäft und Politik verwaltet wird
~ Herbert Marcuse
The year had a logic of its own as does every school year, every class of children.
~ Unknown
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
~ Herbert Spencer
Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
~ Herbert Spencer
I have trespassed upon your time too long. I will take my departure with a thousand thanks for your amibility. Not at all. I wish you would have had a bannana. You are most amiable
~ Unknown
everything we value in this life is inseparably connected with the future.
~ Herman Bavinck
God makes everything beautiful in His time, He makes everything happen at the right moment, at the moment He has fixed for it, so that history in its entirety and in its parts corresponds to the counsel of God and exhibits the glory of that counsel.
~ Herman Bavinck