Quotes about Hours
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time
— John Donne
So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing.
— Matthew 20:5
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
— Zig Ziglar
Story is atomic. It is perpetual energy and can power a city. Story is the one thing that can hold a human being's attention for hours.
— Donald Miller
I grant you true repentance is never too late, but I warn you at the same time, late repentance is seldom true. I grant you, one penitent thief was converted in his last hours, that no man might despair; But I warn you,
— JC Ryle
Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours, but neither self—condemning; And of their vain contest' appeared no end. (The closing lines of Book Nine, which illuminates The Fall.)
— John Milton
Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease.
— Cormac McCarthy
That was all her prayer—not for his soul or his righteousness, but that he might not be wasted. And while he slept, for hours and hours, she thought and prayed for him.
— DH Lawrence
A voluntary act to fill empty hours had become intensive labor streaked with the bad feelings that ride the skin like pollen when too much about one's neighbors is known.
— Toni Morrison
He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.
— GK Chesterton
We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!
— Alfred Lord Tennyson