Quotes About Time

Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.

If you can orbit the planet, why can't you see what makes the human heart happy? Is it art or is it sex? Or is it, as I suspect, just keeping going from next thing to next thing to next thing to next thing to next to next to next to next pulsating stupidly to outlast time?

Human life is given meaning, focus, direction: by the past. In: BBC4 The Road to Palmyra

I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment...this day...is as good as any moment in all eternity.

Even if this spring the dappled leaves should shelter our minds from the moon's pale echo we would still remember how once they were sheltered by our skulls only from the day's sun and the night's stars and never from what we feared and what we remembered

The urge to cram the maximum number of activities into the minimum amount of time, notes French cultural commentator Francois Tournier, makes us "prisoners of the present… If we do not slow down, we risk becoming alienated from our own future.

You probably know that a raindrop falling into Lake Itasca in Minnesota will travel the length of the Mississippi and arrive at the Gulf of Mexico about ninety days later," he said.

Striker Smith. He's a superhero from the future who travels through

Billy said that if you try to multiply numbers higher than ten, the earth will fall off its axis. And if you get all the way up to eleven times eleven, you get sucked into a parallel universe, and you travel back in time until you get to the Big Bang, when your head explodes.

Please put those books away," Miss Daisy had to tell us. "It's time for reading.

Is it true that if we don't return our library books on time you lock us in a dungeon under the school?" I asked. Everybody

Rhyme?" she said. "Is it a crime to talk in rhyme? I'd rather mime, but that takes more time.

Can we get out of here now?" Luke finally asked. "By the time we get to 1863, the war will be over.

You may not believe this," he told me, "but I was a boy once." "Just once?" I asked. "I'm a boy all the time.

Three months is 12 weeks. That's 12 whole weeks with no Andrea! I got a calculator for Christmas, and I figured it out. Twelve weeks times 7 days in a week is 84 days. That's 84 days with no Andrea! And 84 days times 24 hours in a day is 2,016 hours. That's 2,016 hours with no Andrea! And 2,016 hours times 60 minutes in an hour is 120,960 minutes. That's 120,960 minutes with no Andrea! And 120,960 minutes times 60 seconds in a minute is 7,257,600 seconds.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Each child blah blah blah blah two minutes blah blah blah blah at the end blah blah blah blah please do not take flash pictures blah blah blah blah our judges will decide blah blah blah blah blah . . .

It seems like only yesterday that I was giving him a bath in our kitchen sink.

Dole told us it was time to march out to the playground.

Without time and space, nothing can change, and without change, it is hard to imagine any reality worth imagining.

Without time, nothing happens. Without space, nothing is.

How true it is that youth is wasted on the young, for they are unable to envision all the possibilities.

The effects of kindness are not always seen immediately, Sometimes it takes years until your kindness will pay off, And is returned to you. And sometimes you never see the fruits of your labors, But they are there, Deep inside of the soul of the one you touched.

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