Quotes About Time

nothing is forever and you better get the good stuff in before you run out of time.

I don't think there's enough time to repair some things. Some things just become part of a person, like their skin color. It doesn't have to define them, but it's always with them.

I stepped off the Learjet at the private airfield just before dawn. I'd been on the plane exactly seventeen hours, twenty-six minutes and fourteen seconds, wearing the same eight-hundred-dollar dress I'd worn when I killed a man twenty-five hours earlier.

When you sat in the dark every day, it was hard to know how much time passed.

think there's enough time to repair some things. Some things just become part of a person, like their skin color. It doesn't have to define them, but it's always with them.

talk? I live in a perpetual state of behind.

The cruel paradox of weekends with kids can be boiled down to this: Parents want to relax. Kids do not.

Mothers have to do a poo in four parts because a child will cry, and then they try and finish off but the child needs them again!

studies have shown that married fathers still spend more time in shared leisure activities with their sons, and children of both genders receive greater attention from their father when there is a son in the family.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Writing is a craft which can be learned like any other. It is not, as some believe, a mystical gift granted only to a fortunate few. Writing simply involves a good deal of time, intense labor and, most of all, self-discipline.

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read books for pleasure.

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure

I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.

Aspect or quality of a verb had, I believe, nothing originally to do with time; aspect in fact cuts clean across time. Aspect in most languages is now at least indicated for the most part by adverbs. I run — quickly; I stand — still; in this sense many verbs have hundreds of aspects.

K]nowing how primitive in many aspects, now little abstract, how uncontaminated by logic and logical structure Hebrew is, it would surely have occured to me to ask, is not aspect wherever and whenever it occurs a thing more primitive, more psychologically fundamental than time order, than tense? Was there not a time in the development of language when primitive man focussed his attention not on time order but on something else expressed by aspect, and what is that something?

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

Nothing can change until we acknowledge what is, as I have learned over time.

But there's time yet. The old women of the tribe have almost always been the wiser. If they keep their marbles long enough. Old men forget--or tend to reminisce, and reminisce falsely and sententiously as a rule. We are often very silly in our middle years but we tend to improve

For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you have only known the back of it, there is spread the pattern.

So the years passed and everyone grew old and Nell's husband died and Hilda grew to be a large, angry sort of woman very high up in local government. When Nell was eighty-four Hilda retired and they went to live at a sea-side place where Hilda had had meaningful holidays during the menopause with a woman called Audrey, now dead.

Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.

Old age equalizes- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.