- 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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family came over from Spain about nine generations ago. I was born in San Diego, but by the time I was four days old, I was on a flight back to Spain because that's where my family was living at the time.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely have some stereotypical qualities of being a Latina. I talk with my hands, which means I knock stuff over all the time.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love kids. Every time I go around people neighborhood, they're like, 'Biz! Yo Gabba Gabba!' They want me to beatbox all the time for them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to eat, like, a whole Entenmann's cake at one time with a half-gallon of milk.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Singing is something I do every day - not every other month. When I touch the mic, the same thing happens every time.
- Cow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
- Corner
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the time I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. I have that nerd factor in my character.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
- Nov 07, 2020
For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020