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Quotes About Time

The years have come and gone without a single word from you. Only the sky above us do we hold in common. I look at it often as if, somehow, reflected from its immensities, I will one day find myself gazing into your eyes.
~ Alice Walker
Standing beside the river, realizing that the water of earth is recycled forever, she deeply understood this: that there are two presents. One is of the moment. The other is of a longer moment - the moment that includes the history and knowledge one knows. So that, she mused, if the tears shed by the mother of Isis are now part of this river then I am somehow connected to her in this longer present that I am able to envision and that contains both of us.
~ Alice Walker
El tiempo se mueve despacio, pero pasa deprisa.
~ Alice Walker
This life soon be over … Heaven last always
~ Alice Walker
La experiencia. Más tarde o más temprano, todos acabamos por tenerla. Para eso, lo único que hay que hacer es ir viviendo.
~ Alice Walker
She was someone who could not be rushed. This seems a small thing. But it is actually a very amazing quality, a very ancient one. She did everything at just the same pace as before, she could tell the time of day or night by the moisture in the atmosphere, and she went about her business as if she would live forever, and forever was very, very long. That is the kind of mujer my mama was. When you look at me you see her, but I have lost 'forever'; therefore I sometimes hurry.
~ Alice Walker
I am so happy. I got love, I got work, I got money, friends and time.
~ Alice Walker
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly
~ Alice Walker
Two old fools left over from love
~ Alice Walker
Even if we live forever, we'll never get to a place where we can honestly say: There's nothing happening here; I'm bored. Or, you can be bored, I guess, but you can never say it's because nothing is happening. Something is always happening. In fact, everything is always happening .
~ Alice Walker
We recall that to the Cherokee, as to other people who have noticed how long it sometimes takes for humans to develop fully, adulthood comes--if it is coming at all--at the age of fifty-two.
~ Alice Walker
The end is coming yesterday it was here too.
~ Alice Walker
To love someone over many years is all the opportunity you need to learn how to love them back from anywhere.
~ Alice Walker
But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.
~ Alice Walker
But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this is the youngest us felt.
~ Alice Walker
She was someone who could not be rushed. This seems a small thing. But it is actually a very amazing quality, a very ancient one. She did everything at just the same pace as before, she could tell the time of day or night by the moisture in the atmosphere, and she went about her business as if she would live forever, and forever was very, very long.
~ Alice Walker
The world is as beautiful as it ever was. It is changing, but then it always has been. This is a good time to change, and remain beautiful, with it.
~ Alice Walker
Here us is, I thought, two old fools left over from love, keeping each other company under the stars.
~ Alice Walker
The real gift any person can give is a web of connective tissue. IF we love fiercely, our ancestors live among and speak to us through these incandescent filaments glowing from the warmth of memories. Loving fiercely is real-time legacy building. Maybe that's the best way to honor people.
~ Alice Wong
Why have I spent so many hours of my life--very possibly as many as are actually recommended-- exercising ?!
~ Alison Bechdel
How brief and hidden were the moments of destiny.
~ Alison Goodman
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.' Soren Kierkegaard
~ Alison Kervin
Bal, she whispered, her forehead resting against his chest as the seconds counted away. The only power I'd wish for is the power to turn back time.
~ Alison Sinclair
the most resplendent sun setteth at last in a western cloud.
~ Alison Weir