QuoteProject
Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.
Dolly Parton
ShareWTF𝕏

Interpretation

What this quote means

Time inevitably changes us, and the passage of time is reflected in our appearance and lives.

This quote by Dolly Parton reflects the universal truth that as time passes, it leaves its marks on us, both physically and emotionally. It serves as a reminder of the inevitability of aging and the need to embrace the changes that come with it, rather than resist them, highlighting the relationship between time and the human experience.

Themes

TimeAgingChangeWisdomLife

In practice

Example use cases

During a toast at a family gathering, to reflect on how we all change over the years.

More from Dolly Parton

After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
Dolly PartonRead
My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.
Dolly PartonRead
A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.
Dolly PartonRead
The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.
Dolly PartonRead
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
Dolly PartonRead
Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.
Dolly PartonRead

Similar quotes

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march up angrily and remain facing ours for a long time without either joining battle or removing demands, the situation is one that requires great vigilance and circumspection. To begin by bluster, but afterward to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.
Sun TzuRead
I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now.
George CarlinRead
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
Abraham LincolnRead
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
Thomas PaineRead
Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill is daily spun, But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric.
Edna St. Vincent MillayRead
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master
John DrydenRead

A little wisdom, now and then

Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.