Quotes about Time
How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.
— Hannah More
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
— Henry David Thoreau
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
— Henry David Thoreau
Live, for this is the time of your life.
— William Saroyan
We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.
— Jean Baptiste Massillon
You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.
— John Owen
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
— Philip James Bailey
Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.
— Og Mandino
Time is your most precious gift, because you only have a set amount of it.
— Rick Warren
Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.
— John Lennon
All over America, churchgoers chafe at a Sunday morning service that runs an hour and ten minutes, but have no problem with three-hour football games on television.
— Jim Cymbala
I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.
— Jimmy Carter