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Quotes about Time

When your mother dies, it really hurts. But with time, you get used to it. That's nature's way.
- Muhammad Ali
How you spend your time defines who you are.
- Oprah Winfrey
It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.
- Oswald Chambers
Every time you wink the stars move.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise. He had a pickup truck, and the devil's eyes. He stared at me and I felt a change. Time meant nothing, never would again.
- Richard O'Brien
The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
- Samuel Johnson
At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.
- Stephen Jay Gould
History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.
- Stephen Jay Gould
It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.
- Thomas Jefferson
No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.
- Washington Irving
Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
- William Osler