- Poetry
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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
An elephant funeral makes me weep every time, and so does an ad with a kid leaving home for college.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.
- Great Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids' books that I was reading.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every published writer, myself included, was at one time unpublished. All writers know what rejection feels like.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.
- Biggest Lesson
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor earned; that we are all prisoners of our own flawed brains; that the ultimate aloneness in each of us is, finally, inviolable.
- Formulate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm endlessly intrigued by stories, and I love helping someone to formulate his or her story. I can drift off when I'm reading pure abstraction, but the narratives of human lives hold my attention every time.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is enormous shame around depression of any kind and at any time. And there's enormous social stigma attached to it, which we need to go on fighting. But I think that the sense of depression during pregnancy and early motherhood has been particularly stigmatized, that people especially feel that should be the happiest time of your life.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Depression is so exhausting - it takes up so much of your time and energy - and silence about it, it really does make the depression worse.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.
- Squad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's hard for one coach to do all the formats all the time, and there are a limited number of coaches who have done the hard yards already. You can have head and assistant coaches for each squad.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grief is a bit of a journey, and it is evolving all the time but I am very functional.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no reason why cricket shouldn't be the number one alternative to football. And at a time when there are obvious divisions in society, cricket has a great role to play in bringing people together from all sorts of diverse backgrounds and faiths.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020