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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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.
We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.
I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.
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I hear it all the time: 'What happened to the Grace Potter who didn't used to wear makeup?'
It's funny: when I was a kid, my mom would reorganize the record collection all the time. She'd have classical, she'd have Celtic, she'd have rock and roll, and then she'd have female singers. And I don't like it that...
Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity.
I'm from Vermont, where to be stylish and cool is to have a dirty pair of hiking boots and know how to change a tire, hang drywall, and bale hay. Those people are my home, and every time I come...
I know it's strange, but I've always had a better time with other people's wild ideas. Coming up with my own is a deeply emotional and challenging thing to do.
Any time you write a song, you kind of know what you want from it. You know what you're getting from it.
Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One...
Every time I do something or release something or announce a new project, there's always that fear that it won't go well.
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their...
I chose the Congress for its thoughts, its acceptance of people of all opinions, and its wide perspective. Another reason for joining the party was my family, which is attached to the Congress for a long period of time.
I feel like covering my children's eyes when they watch television. It's better that they spend their time doing something constructive.
I want to get rid of the image that I never turn up on time, because everyone always complains about this habit of mine.
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
We actually make all of our own music videos. Often we come up with the visual concepts at the same time as writing the music.
I often find myself listening to the 'Shipping Forecast' on Radio 4. At first, I am usually wondering what time it is, but then, because often I'm on the other side of the bed and I can't be bothered to...
I've spent some time in Edinburgh before. I used to go up there to busk and actually went to the Fringe a few times as a teenager with my cello.
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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.
