- 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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.
- Nov 07, 2020
I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Family time is really important to me.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I know a single person who's a minority who hasn't experienced some form of discrimination at one time or another.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents used books as bribes: if I got straight A's on my report card, they would buy me one book. This was completely unnecessary, as I always got A's, and they bought me books all the time anyway, and we all knew it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now that I have a child of my own, I'm in awe of - and deeply grateful for - the time my parents spent in taking me to bookstores.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I resisted Twitter for a long time. To me, it was synonymous with networking, which in my mind means unceasing self-promotion and superficial small-talk with strangers. A little like wading into a river with a raging current - and I'm a terrible swimmer.
- Nov 07, 2020
Spend too much time alone with your own words, and your writing grows anemic, in dire need of a transfusion.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a historically voracious reader - pre-baby, I averaged a book every week or two, and when I was a kid, I'd routinely read a book a day - I never understood how some people could not read. When I heard people say they didn't have time to read, in my head, I simultaneously pitied and ridiculed them: there was always time to read.
- Enough Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father finished his Ph.D., my mother went back for another bachelor's degree, this time in environmental science.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was freelance proof-reading, freelance editing, creating illustrated slides for doctors' presentations - just so I'd have enough money to take the time to write. That's how I got by.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work 18 to 20 hours a day, seven days a week, so I don't have time for a social life. Or any life outside work.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People's financial situation has changed, and they surrender their cats all the time, because they're downsizing or moving to a property where they are not allowed to have pets.
- Being Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020