- Fish
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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Disconnected
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
This baby comes out of you and there's no handbook. They hand you this child and say, 'Don't kill it. Feed it, clothe it and shelter it.' I never knew what that kind of love was. I remember looking at my daughter for the first time and wondering if that's the way my father looked at me.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember looking at my daughter for the first time and wondering if that's the way my father looked at me. I could cry, because she's everything to me. I feel so blessed to be taught so much by her.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me a long time to figure out that I didn't have to do everything, that it was actually a lot more helpful if I did a couple things really, really well than a whole bunch of things really badly, or nothing at all, because the whole thing was overwhelming.
- Nov 07, 2020
Find an organization that you want to support and get involved. You can give money or give time.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We understand that, in our communities, black trans folk, gender-nonconforming folk, black queer folk, black women, black disabled folk - we have been leading movements for a long time, but we have been erased from the official narrative.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We spend more time talking about what's happening on Twitter than we do talking about what kind of organising people are doing in the cities we live in.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space, but it's still lyrical. It's almost poetic, in a way, but it's very personal at the same time.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.
- Bored
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- Nov 07, 2020
I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn't hold my attention. I couldn't figure skate. I'm afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I truly loved doing the videos, but it has been hard hearing all the time that you're just the Aerosmith chick.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Three trans women came up to me separately to tell me they had felt such a connection with Ava in 'Ex Machina' and her dream of finally coming to full female fruition. They had all cried; one said she was very emotional during the scene where Ava finally puts her skin on for the first time.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grupo Limite is always going to be a major highlight of my life. We worked so hard, sometimes touring for 10 months at a time.
- Concerned
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- Nov 07, 2020