Quotes about Time
Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.
— Euripides
Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.
— Frank Herbert
I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.
— Frederick Buechner
All our anxieties relate to time.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose.
— George W. Bush
It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.
— George W. Bush
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
I hear people say, "It's not the quantity of time that's important; it's the quality." Well, technically that may be true, but quality doesn't happen in a hurry.
— Gloria Gaither
As time passes, you will look back with twenty-twenty hindsight, and you will say, 'Thank God He did not answer my prayers' or 'Thank God He answered my prayers,' whichever the case may be.
— Greg Laurie
He who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.
— Hannah More
Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for.
— Henry David Thoreau
We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.
— Herman Melville