Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Henry David Thoreau

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

Jacob Bronowski

Time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.

Hartley Coleridge

If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles.

Johnny Rivers

The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed.

Emmanuel Jal

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

Lesley Nicol

The first time I ever got up on a stage, I did a comedy poem. I don't know how I got there in the first place because I was very, very shy.

The first time he said, 'Time to make the doughnuts,' we were hysterical.

The first time going back -- it'll be interesting,

Chase Budinger

This is a lot of fun. But it's a lot more work than I thought. There's no time to rest.

Stephen Lewis

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.

Elizabeth Smart

All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

Eric Hoffer

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

Eric Hoffer

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Eric Hoffer

It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

Eric Hoffer

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

Eric Hoffer

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

Eric Bana

I'm always one time zone behind myself.

Enid Bagnold

Things come suitable to the time.

David Harsanyi

You don't have to get things done all the time to be productive.

James F. Cooper

On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.

James F. Cooper

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.

James Cash Penney

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

Friedrich Schiller

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

Friedrich Schiller

Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime.

Friedrich Schiller

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Friedrich Schiller

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Friedrich Schiller

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

George Gilder

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

Jon Bon Jovi

Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.

Johnnie Cochran

We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis