Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wordsworth

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

William Wordsworth

The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.

William Wordsworth

That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.

William Wordsworth

She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.

William Wordsworth

The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.

William Wordsworth

On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.

William Saroyan

My work has always been the product of my time.

William Saroyan

I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.

William Saroyan

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

William Saroyan

Live, for this is the time of your life.

William J. Clinton

Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.

William James

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

William Gibson

Time is money, but also money is money.

William Gibson

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

William Gibson

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

Will Durant

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Samuel Rogers

To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.

Samuel Rogers

By many a temple half as old as Time.

Samuel Smiles

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

Samuel Smiles

Time is of no account with great thoughts. They are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago.

Richard M. Nixon

Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

Ric Ocasek

If you want to talk about it, I got the time When you're looking so enchanted, you cover my mind If you think I'll wait forever, maybe you're right There's no such thing as now or never, there's only twilight

Richard LaGravenese

I've always shot on film, but the times are changing.

Tupac Shakur

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

Tupac Shakur

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

Vance Havner

It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

Ugo Betti

Killing time is the chief end of our society.

Sara Teasdale

Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

Sara Teasdale

Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold, Let it be forgotten forever and ever, Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

Samuel Rutherford

Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.

Samuel Johnson

Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage