Quotes About Time

knowing what o'clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances.

time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is—in the blink of an eye, the mother can see the child again as it was when it was born, when it learned to walk, as it was at any age—at any time, even when the child is fully grown and a parent itself.

Diana Gabaldon

Diana Gabaldon

Jamie's own face was lined with shadow, the firelight showing the mark of time and struggle on his flesh as wind and rain mark stone.

IN THE LIGHT OF eternity, time casts no shadow. Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. But what is it that the old women see? We see necessity, and we do the things that must be done. Young women don't see—they are, and the spring of life runs through them.

tone; "it's only the essence of a thing that counts. When time strips everything else away, it's only the hardness of the bone that's left.

Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.

And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.

Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's the always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all powerful—because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed.

in which these exchanges were conducted

Diana Gabaldon

My turn today—yours tomorrow. Thus passes the glory of the world.

Diana Gabaldon

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The mountains had their own time, and a wise man didn't hurry them.

Diana Gabaldon

Diana Gabaldon

EÄŸer Zaman biraz olsun Tanr?'ya benzeyen bir ÅŸeyse, o halde Haf?za'n?n Åžeytan olmas? gerektiÄŸini düÅŸünüyorum.

I have noticed," she said slowly, "that time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is—in the blink of an eye, the mother can see the child

the medical way for a two-month voyage.

Voir les années s'inscrire sur ton corps et ton visage me procure une joie immense, Sassenach : Parce qu'elles signifient que tu vis.

Diana Gabaldon

SonsuzluÄŸun yan?nda günler ve haftalar?n ne anlam? ola bilirdi ki?... Bu bir anlamda insana huzur veren bir fikirdi. EÄŸer sonsuz zamana sahip olsayd?k, yaÅŸad???m?z anlar çok daha hafif yükler verirdi bize.