Quotes About Time

Etymologically, the word time comes from tide—an ancient reference to the lunar cycle still retained in such expressions as "yuletide" and "good tidings.

Over the millennia, man has developed three ways of thinking about time: chaotic, cyclical, and linear. The first was the dominant view of primitive man, the second of ancient and traditional civilizations, and the third of the modern West, especially America.

That means, in turn, that this is an experience which shatters time and liberates people from the confinement of time by at once recalling all that has gone before and anticipating all that is to come.

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.

If there are sixty minutes in one hour, and there are twenty dogs in the car, how long does it take an owl to fly around the school and eat a lollipop?" OMG! This is sooo boring!

But though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake any more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit. JOHN WESLEY

The flies of some other summer darkening its windowsills.

Energy efficiency is a tactic for slowing the process of overshooting environmental limits, but the urgent work facing our civilization is to use the time we gain to build richer, more resilient kinds of buildings that serve the common good.

mastery comes to you over time when you're focused. Don't get ahead of yourself.

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.

How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!

Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,The earth, and every common sight,To me did seemAppareled in celestial light,The glory and the freshness of a dream.It is not now as it hath been of yore—Turn wheresoe'er I may,By night or day,The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

But Europe at that time was thrilled with joy,France standing on the top of golden hours,And human nature seeming born again.

Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.

Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now.

The unimaginable touch of Time.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions.

Splendour in the Grass What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind. --

And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.