- 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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Exciting Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sure, there's a chunk of African-Americans out there who associate the Republican Party with racism, frankly particularly in the Deep South. It's an unfair perception, but it exists. Over a period time, that perception will die away if Republicans are focusing on issues that happen to impact African-Americans.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parliament's job is to conduct discussions. But many a time, Parliament is used to ignore issues, and in such situations, obstruction of Parliament is in the favour of democracy. Therefore, parliamentary obstruction is not undemocratic.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an economy where public spending is extremely important, the governments must spend, they must spend more but at the same time you can't afford to be reckless and do away with all kinds of fiscal prudence.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to cook for my granny one more time. I cooked for her a couple of times before she passed away, but I wasn't really old enough.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
By all means, let us study the great writers of the past for their own sakes, but let us study them for our guidance: that we, in our turn, having (it is to be hoped) something to say in our span of time, say it worthily, not dwindling out the large utterance of Shakespeare or of Burke.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020