Quotes About Time

You...you've been here quite a long time, haven't you?" What? Oh...yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever. Dashed hopes, and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. How do you like that for a declension, young man?

Nyla was right in predicting that, for me, life would go on into old age and my promise has been kept too, for every now and then over the years, the ghosts have slipped out from the past and I have kept brief company with my friends of long ago.

On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

Don't forget the time change. Tomorrow when you leave for work it will be later than when you woke up.

I will believe him to have been a very respectable man, who only spoke the truth when he boasted of his power to be in two places at the same time." "Is that so difficult?" said the old gentleman; "if so, you have never dreamed!

Glyndon rejoined his impatient and wondering friend; but Merton, gazing on his face, saw that a great change had passed there. The flexile and dubious expression of youth was forever gone; the features were locked, rigid, and stern; and so faded was the natural bloom that an hour seemed to have done the work of years.

Only when the sap is dried up, only when age comes on, does the sun shine in vain for man and for the tree.

Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.

He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old.

Après quatre mois d'emprisonnement, j'en sais plus sur la justice qu'après deux années d'université.

Wilson then goes on to provide a new definition of interest: 'Usurye is also saide to be the price of tyme, or of the delaying or forbearing of moneye.' Interest has been described in many ways over the years – it's often referred to as the 'price of money'. But Wilson knew better. Interest, he said, is the price of time. There is no better definition. In

Subhuti asked: Will there be any beings in the future period, in the last time, in the last epoch, in the last five hundred years, at the time of collapse of the good doctrine who, when these words of the Sutra are being taught, will understand their truth?-The Lord replied: Do not speak thus Subhuti! Yes, even then there will be beings who, when these words of the Sutra are being taught, will understand their truth.

Childhood: it was like trying to chart an entire continent by the brief flare of a firework. Except that you had no idea that this was your only chance to explore for free, and instead you spent the five seconds of precious light gawping at the sky, stuffing treacle into your mouth. And then it went dark again.

The question was not whether the world would end but how soon the end would come.

But in the garden the sun still shone. The innumerable bees hummed. The scent of thyme hung on the air. But only the Natterjack was there to breathe the fragrant essence of it. He and the garden were waiting. They were waiting for more children. They didn't care how long they waited. They had all the time in the world. -The Time Garden, Edward Eager

Don't loseYour headTo gain a minuteYou need your headYour brains are in it.

At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.

It's ten p.m. Do you know where your children are?

Essential advice for the gardener: grow peas of mind, lettuce be thankful, squash selfishness, turnip to help thy neighbor, and always make thyme for loved ones.

"Carpe Diem" does not mean "fish of the day."

Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work.

A user and his leisure time are soon parted.

If you want to touch the past, touch a rock. If you want to touch the present, touch a flower. If you want to touch the future, touch a life.