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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
People do like to talk us down, it's a Scottish thing. We are pessimistic, we look for the negatives all the time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have never heard of, chances are it's going to be so complicated that you have a hard time imagining how people can walk around speaking it without having a stroke.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties of Virginia. My father possessed scarcely any fortune and had received a very limited education - but was a man to whom nature had been bountiful, and who had assiduously improved her gifts.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I look at it, they're all part of my musical diary, and I can listen to any one of them and it will bring up memories of what was going on at that time.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
- Dearly
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- Nov 07, 2020
But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.
- Dormant
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tea partiers are a great addition. The tea partiers have invigorated a base that has been dormant for a long period of time. We're going to have a broad array of different views in our Republican conference, and I think it might be more interesting than any I've been in in a long time.
- Evaluating
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- Nov 07, 2020