- Competition
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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.
- First Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Typically, highway bridges have about 50 years. But over in England, they have iron bridges approaching 250 years. In France, there are Roman aqueducts that are approaching 2,000 years old. So a bridge can last a very long time if it's built properly in the first place and then maintained properly.
- Little Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Peru, and we moved to Scotland when I was 15, but I've not lived here for a long time. But I would always say that I am Scottish, and Scotland is as close to a home as I have.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think any parent, at some time or other, has thoughts of their child dying. That's probably one of the worst things that could ever happen to a parent.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
In film, I think that you do have a little more time to invest in the character compared to television, where you are shooting from the hip and making quick choices. It is the speed of things that is the major difference - certainly in my experience.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020