Quotes on Time

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

I say it in the writers' room all the time: My black is not your black. What's terrifying is that, just the same way we've all accepted that normal is white, everybody seems to buy into the idea that there's only one way to be black or one way to be Hispanic. That's as damaging as anything else.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

Spend enough time wrangling a toddler, and you get good at being kind but firm. Like your child, you must be doggedly single-minded when it matters.

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

To my mind, the best investment a young man starting out in business can possibly make is to give all his time, all his energies, to work - just plain, hard work.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

A word of the faith that never balks,_x000D_ _x000D_ Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely._x000D_ _x000D_ It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all,_x000D_ _x000D_ That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all.

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.

Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied to buildings.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

When we understand the connection between how we live and how long we live, it's easier to make different choices. Instead of viewing the time we spend with friends and family as luxuries, we can see that these relationships are among the most powerful determinants of our well-being and survival.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

As movie monsters go, zombies are the most human. They were human at one time. So we are confronted with ourselves in a way, which is much more frightening and disturbing.