Quotes About Time

Where did the bonds of maternity end? All children grew up, changed, became somebody else. Parents who trembled that they might lose a gap-toothed toddler to some terrible accident ended up losing him anyway, always, to time. The toddlers died, after all, and what was left was a bond with another adult, who had once been the beloved child.

without being tiresome. They lacked that all-important dimension of physics: torque. Too much time ahead, too little behind, like a man trying to carry a horizontal ladder with a grip at one end.

It was funny in a way, but only in the unhumorous way anything recent was funny. In another 80 years, maybe she would find it hilarious.

Before books, there were stories. In them was distilled the knowledge each generation wished to pass on to the next. Storytelling was (and is) a form of power. It was time binding: it linked then to now. Told eloquently, at the right time to the right listeners, a story shaped the future." -The Real Valkyrie

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.

There they are, held like flies in the amber of that moment—click goes the camera and on goes life; the minutes, the days, the years, the decades, taking them further and further from that happiness and promise of youth, from the hopes Aunt Sadie must have had for them, and from the dreams they dreamed for themselves. I often think there is nothing quite so poignantly sad as old family groups.

What also excites me is that the artist attempts with the visual what I attempt to do with words: stop time, create a moment, and celebrate the process.

And the reason is that they thought matter was eternal.

Life is short. If you have something to say, either spit it out or forget about it.

You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

Overcooked asparagus dripped off the rim of a platter like clocks in a Dalí painting. And

Somewhere I read that human beings are the only creatures to spend the present driving themselves crazy about the future.

his elevator ride to read a priority email; the time spent walking from the elevator to his office to consider his client's question. By the time he hit his office, he was task-ready and sat

I wondered if, now that she was a vampire, she had forgotten her connection to my world, the world of humans and of witches. I turned to Rafe. He was a sensible, intelligent vampire. Surely he could see what was going on here. "Rafe. Tell them this isn't fair. I need more time to prepare." He shrugged his elegant shoulders. "I never get involved in witch matters.

Thirty-three is not old." Dosana was all of twenty-two so Iris was not inclined to believe she knew what she was talking about. "Jesus was thirty three when he died." "But not of old age.

Georgie) Two hundred years later and it's exactly the same thing. You want to spend every single moment with your children and still have a fulfilling life at work.

Peter) Best to remember that life is lived not just in phases but also in layers.

Georgie) I hated going to the playground EVERYDAY. If someone had only told me it wouldn't last forever

My duty is to fill my time on earth with as much life as possible, to become a little more human every day, and to understand that we only become human when we love.

Your time is precious if you make use of it at the appropriate way, moment and right place.

I feel, right now, that if time stopped at this moment, it would be just fine by me.

Sailor Moon, you likely will be forever immortal. For you are the most beautiful, shining heavenly body of all time.