Time Quotes
Quotes marking moments across time.
This page brings together quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family. It pairs well with Family Quotes for related reflections.
Manchester City, the club and the fans, they were amazing. But I'm sorry, the city wasn't that nice. I was all the time at home, and I didn't enjoy it. It was raining all the time. I was a little...
You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.
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I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.
Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe.
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.
I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him.
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.
Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.
The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.
If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to...
I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.
Success can be destructive to the creative process. I say it all the time: success is as dangerous as total failure.
Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying to work on something and it's not going anywhere, you can go to school and there's a two-and-a-half-hour...
I think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe it, even physics or math or anything else. But it is what we continuously experience. It's the state of our unfolding,...
I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or facts or realizations that put a book in another light and make it different and richer...
Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.
Frequently Asked Questions
What kind of quotes are on the "Time" page?
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Why would a quote about security relate to "time"?
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A few quotes look further back, considering time on a generational scale rather than a daily one. For nearby reading in Hindi, see Anmol Vachan or Suvichar on this same theme.
