Quotes About Time

Always in motion is the future," Yoda reminded himself. "Know this you do. Heed your own lessons you should.

Here was the thing about traveling down an uncharted river: You could only say how long you'd been traveling; you could never say how long it would be.

Christmas is such a trial,' said Mrs McCosh. 'I do most sincerely wish the Lord had been born at some other time.

You can't be pretty forever, you know that? But you can always be beautiful.

One is only young once, but in her case it was once too often.

There comes a point in life where each one of us who survives begins to feel like a ghost that has forgotten to die at the right time

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

It seems that age folds the heart in on itself.

One should not, after

There comes a point in life where each one of us who survives begins to feel like a ghost that has forgotten to die at the right time, and certainly most of us were more amusing when we were young. It seems that age folds the heart in on itself. Some of us walk detached, dreaming on the past, and some of us realize that we have lost the trick of standing in the sun.

bear in mind that this time around it was impossible to become a senior officer by merit alone; it was done by browning the tongue.

Love delayed is lust augmented.

To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.

A journey is time suspended.

sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Each day must be approached as a unit; each day must be lived with care; and if this was done, the procession of days would turn out all right.

The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing it against a time of need, then suddenly it bursts into awareness, which men call inspiration or second sight or a gift.

The desert preserves. What other lands destroy, the desert keeps. It accepts dead things, holds them close, and draws away the rot that would destroy; given time, it mummifies or crystalizes.

The buzzards were neutral. No matter who won down there, they would win. They had but to wait.

I wished I had a book. It had been so long since I had read. Could a man forget how to read?

She'd never been one to think in terms of years, anyway. A person was what they were, and many a man at forty was sixty in his ways and many another was twenty and would never grow past it.

we hold this land only for a time. Whether we win it in peace or war, we hold it only in trust for other peoples, and other generations.

sleep whenever there was time and to eat when there was food.

Men may plan, they may dream and struggle, but the buzzard has only to wait, for all things come to him in the end.