Quotes About Significance

Time defines sacred events.

The magnitude of any one day is compromised by its passing quickly into the next, a mere moment in time which soon fades into the collective memory of our past.

Time is measured in meaning

This is a special date but that was a special time

If you want to be regarded as a valuer of life, then first value time.

Incident piled on incident no more makes life than brick piled on brick makes a house.

There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

A belt does nothing but hold your gi together. A belt has assigned significance, a belt is someone else saying you're good, you don't need other people saying that you're good in order to be good.

That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.

'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.

the past was not dead but alive, and important by virtue of the very invisibility of its influence.

If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize God?

Who decides which… deaths are tragic and which are not? Who decides what is big and what is little? Is it a matter of numbers or physical mass or intelligence? If you are a little creature or a little person dying alone and in pain, you may not remember or know that you are little. If you are in enough pain, you may not remember who or what you are; you may know only your suffering, which is immense… What decides – common sense? Can common sense dictate such things?

May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful.

believe us, they say, it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world. I beg of you, do not walk by without pausing to attend to this rather ridiculous performance. It could mean something. It could mean everything.

It has an undeniable value: it exists.

Lucy's gift," she said. The watch had stopped. The hands were at 2:20.

We look back to times past, and we mass them together, and say in such a year such and such events took place, such wars occupied that year, and during the next there was peace. Yet each year was then divided into weeks, days, minute, and slow-moving seconds, during which there were human minds to note and distinguish them, as now.

It all became clear to me that day, September 3, 2004.

Never underestimate the big importance of small things

The story of a briefly abundant hairless primate originating in Africa is but a footnote in the history of life, but in the history of the hairless primate it is central.

Significant thins shouldn't begin or end at Applebee's.

Significant things shouldn't begin or end at Applebee's.