Quotations About Time
The years like great black oxen tread the world And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
William Butler Yeats
The Countess Cathleen
The Countess Cathleen
The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
Tillie Olsen
Tell Me a Riddle
Tell Me a Riddle
Time upholds or overturns The many, tight, and small concerns.
Gwendolyn Brooks
"The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock"
"The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock"
Grief thief of time crawls off....
Dylan Thomas
"Grief thief of time."
"Grief thief of time."
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz
"Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day," 1937
"Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day," 1937
Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
Alan Lakein
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau
Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
David C. McCullough
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Nelson Mandela
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden
A good shepherd knows time like no other, and a good shepherd sleeps well, even while dreaming of wolves.
Steve Cash
Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
Nicolas Chamfort
The time I kill is killing me.
Mason Cooley
Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply?
Terri Guillemets
Time brings all things to pass.
Aeschylus
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda Meir