Quotes
Quotes about Time
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
I'm sometimes asked "Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?" I answer: "I am working at the roots." -George T. Angell, reformer (1823-1909)
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering.
You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange.
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
I don't need time. What I need is a deadline.
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I've made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and the fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time in reading it.
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Brasington's Ninth Law: A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned one will take only twice as long.
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
