Quotes About Time

Babies did that to you: they pinned you down in the moment at precisely the same time as hurtling you into the future and hitching you back to the past.

I was thinking what everyone is thinking all of the time: How can I make this last just a little bit longer?

Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.

Yes, she's about to embark on a new phase of her life. And yes, my role in her life may change. But as time goes on and our hearts grow more rings, we don't have to leave anyone behind. We can hold on to each other, and collect new hearts to hold, from this day forward, as long as we all shall live.

Mary was always surprised at how terse men could be. She needed fifteen minutes to say hello. Plus hugging time.

She'd believed in forever in her twenties, when Gray had said it, meaning every word, and she'd believed in forever in her thirties, when William had said it, lying through his teeth. But she'd lived long enough to know that forever couldn't be guaranteed to anyone. Even tomorrow couldn't be relied upon.

tardiness was allowable only in babies born past their due date.

None of us is meant to live forever. We're meant to live only in the time we have, in love and kindness. That's all anyone can hope for.

He didn't know why she was standing so close , much less touching him, but he didn't have time to worry about it.

They say life is short, but the truth is, motherhood is short.

twenty-five years in prison.

close at three o'clock.

Katie had said that motherhood had no expiration date, and Jill had agreed, believing to the bone that that it transcended everything—biology, law, even time and space.

Judy felt dismayed. A half hour? She couldn't learn much about the gym in half an hour.

My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.

When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above.

Every passing moment is the passing of life; every moment of life is life itself.

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

If there is happiness at age three, it will last until you reach eighty.

I'd never waste the hours of light in the darkness of slumber.

Sometimes you think you have all of tomorrow ahead of you,' Mama often said. 'When the sun is shinning, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above.

Her laugh carries weariness and despair) All you can do is live. You don't have a choice. Life continues whether we want it to or not. The sun will rise despite our suffering.

It takes a lifetime to make a friend, but you can lose one in an hour," she recites. "Life without a friend is life without sun. Life without a friend is death.

Si a los tres años eres feliz, serás feliz a los ochenta.»