Quotes About Time

Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time...You try to walk in the light.

The current of memory carried her along, futher, futher. This time, she didn't resist.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.

Even a stopped clock is right two times a day.

Lack of time is a real health killer.

I have limits. Perhaps I can stretch them. But respecting them, I have learned, is generally wiser than pretending they're not there. Because I don't have all the time in the world, I have this whole hour, this day. The duration of one cup of coffee. The time it takes to listen to one more winding sentence or to stay with a child on her slow way to sleep.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

If you manage to live long enough, most of your greatest fears become fond memories to look back on.

You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous.

She was young and scared, and hadn't realized there was time to spare.

For writers, handing a manuscript off to an editor is like walking into a parole hearing. You've done the time but wonder if it's going to satisfy the judge.

Just a child. All this time we've feared you, sought you. And you're nothing more than a human child.

The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

I had arrived at the airport one hour early so that, in accordance with airline procedures, I could stand around.

Do something. Anything. You're alive, and you'll only be for a few decades, and then it's done. You'll be in the ground, worm food. Make something and don't let fear consume you.

By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."

One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.

Kissing don't last: cookery do.

Hatred is one long wait.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.