Quotes About Time

A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!

We hope for the future, then we reach for the past.

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries.

Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?

If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.

Grass grows at last above all graves.

The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes.

You hope you're saying the right things - but also, as a kid becomes a teenager, you feel like there's a ticking clock for you to tell them everything they need to know.

I hope I die before I get old.

I hope that my niece in 20 years is going to say to me, 'Aunt Stevie, what was with your hair?'

Alexandre Dumas

How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. All there is ever, is the now.

What is forever? God, I don't know. Hope, I guess. That's a difficult question.

The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.

I mean, hope doesn't get actualized in three and a half years. If that were the case, we'd be out of luck as a country.

We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.

They say the Universe started with a big bang. I hope everybody stood well back.

My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week.

There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.