Quotes About Time

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

To be free is not to live in no place and at no time but to live in one place as in the shadow of all places, and to live in one time as in the morning twilight of eternity.

Antony's children were provided with additional names about this time

The Roman month lasted either twenty-nine or thirty-one days;

Ides" was the name for the thirteenth or the fifteenth, depending on the month's length.)

Caesar did not arrive until about eleven o'clock in the morning

was kept waiting in an anteroom and was admitted only after a long delay.

because I believe that each generation should have a chance to see a giant figure of the past from the perspective of its own time and circumstances.

bite by an asp is not necessarily fatal, and even when it is, as much as two hours may pass before life is extinguished.

Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it." --Quintus Tullius Cicero

For some commutes, the time spent stuck in traffic will hit four hours per day.

I found that if you spend all your time regretting the past, you forfeit the inner peace your soul needs to survive.

It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.

I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

Today is the tomorrow I was worried about yesterday.

Today is the tomorrow we feared yesterday.

You're never too young to die.

Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were missing arms. Many had no faces. Once they had been saints and angels. Two hundred years standing in London had turned them into cripples.

We have an hour before we have to leave," Cray said. "So I thought I might tell you a little about myself. I thought it might pass the time." "I'm not really all that interested," Alex said.

Rumours and malicious gossip are like bindweed. They cannot be cut back, even with the sword of truth. I can, however, offer you this comfort. Given time, they will wither and die of their own volition.

That's why life is so different to fiction. Every day is a single page and you have no chance to thumb forward and see what lies ahead.

Robert Pinkerton used to say that a lie was like a dead coyote. The longer you leave it, the more it smells.

Robert Pinkerton used to say that a lie was like a dead coyote. The longer you leave it, the more it smells. - Frederick Chase

a lie was like a dead coyote. The longer you leave it, the more it smells.