- People
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- 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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was the only one who encouraged and inspired me for singing. She was singing all the time in the house, playing records also.
- Nov 07, 2020
You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with both my parents around me at all times, but my kids are not knowing who I am half the time.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Lord has blessed me to play this game. I'm going to try to play it as long as I can. But at the same time, I want to be able to watch my kids grow up, so I've gotten to where I'm a little more mild, and I don't take golf as seriously as I did in the earlier years of my career.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout my whole time in wrestling on the road, going out and being around some of the whitest people in the world, I've never had any problems with anybody. It was never black or white. Booker T was just a wrestler. I did that by design.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One time, someone came up to me and said, 'I know so-and-so. They're a professor at Harvard. They're a big fan of your work.' But that doesn't impress me more than any other people feeling that way.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Chicago. I moved to Detroit until I was six and moved to Oakland at that point. And then we had a couple years in Stockton and Pasadena. And by the time I was 13, I was back in Oakland.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every progressive movement in U.S. history has been portrayed negatively by the media at the time it happened.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this zeitgeist happening, and people are more open to 'Sorry to Bother You' being a hit with 'Get Out' being out there. But that zeitgeist is also happening because of the movements going back to Occupy and Black Lives Matter. Usually, film is years behind. It just so happens that, this time, everything is lining up.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don't have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020