- Nov 07, 2020
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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I spent time with my father, it wasn't playing ball in the back yard. I came to his office and listened to him do business or sat in on meetings. I walked job sites. On Saturday, we'd see my grandfather in Queens for a couple hours, and then he'd say, 'Let's go collect rent!'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.
- Very
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- Nov 07, 2020
Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to do draft after draft... It takes me a long time, but I love doing it, and I have to do it every day, or I feel slack.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the suburbs of Connecticut - during the school time of year - but I preferred it in New Hampshire. I preferred the culture, the landscape, the relative solitude. I've always loved it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where we are going as a species is a big question. Human evolution certainly hasn't stopped. Every time individuals produce a new zygote, there's a reshuffling and recombination of genes. And we don't know where all of that is going to take us.
- Archaeological
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I considered Neanderthals ancestors of modern humans. We have gone back twice the age of Lucy, six million years. And we see that upright bipedal walking goes back that far in time.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tolstoy may not be showing that much of Russia at that time even. It's hard to tell. You tend to associate the quality of the period with what's lasted - what's still good. And that quality becomes the whole period.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.
- Different Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since dogs could hear and smell better than men, we could concentrate on sight. Since courage is commonplace in dogs, men's adrenal glands could shrink. Dogs, by making us more efficient predators, gave us time to think. In short, dogs civilized us.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't have work for a border collie or time to train it properly, your bright young border collie will invent his own work, and chances are you won't like it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020