- 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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to spend some time looking out at this beautiful Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.
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Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I oughta be rich. But, you know, if you don't spend all your time looking after money, somebody else will. The guys who look after money, they're the ones who get the money.
- Slavery
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once the public loses confidence in a president's leadership at a time of war, once they don't trust him anymore, once his credibility is sharply diminished, how does he get it back?
- Establishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 1890s was an intensely patriotic decade for Americans. It was a time of neo-imperialism, when the European powers and the United States were establishing their flags around the globe.
- Illusions
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of a national digital library has been in the air for a long time, and there was a danger that some people would feel that it's their property, so to speak.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020