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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every minute counts. Being on time or not can mean the difference of a win or a loss and even of something positive or negative happening in life.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I was a little bit fat. I wasn't, like, big-time fat; I was just overweight - maybe around when I was 13 or 14. At that time, I wasn't practicing that much; tennis was just a hobby. But it wasn't easy to feel that way.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a very happy childhood. I was lucky to grow up surrounded by nature and animals, to be outside all the time, and to work on a big farm with my dad.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I go to a new place, more likely than not, I end up seeing an opera there. It's ended up being a part of travel.
- Florence
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at the office the entire time.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they would not again enjoy for another 2,000 years. You could call them early feminists, if I may use a dirty word.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think you can replaces great themes. But I think people do want to hear fresh arrangements of them. They don't want to hear them played the same way all the time.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arsene Wenger is just an unbelievable manager. I think he's a tremendous person, and he is just as good as there is. You can't judge a manager on one game or on one stretch of games. You judge him over time.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember there were days when - and this is kind of gross - I would sleep in my uniform to save time in the morning and then get up and go to school... it didn't matter because I didn't have to impress anyone, and I didn't have to look cute in class.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't do everything, at the same time, always, and forever. But if you look at your life and your career as a long, winding river, you can get to your destination.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020