“Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.”
Others on Time
Virgil
6 quotes“No day shall erase you from the memory of time”
Shakespeare
5 quotes“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
Stephen King
5 quotes“Time's the thief of memory”
Haruki Murakami
4 quotes“Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.”
Zora Neale Hurston
4 quotes“A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.”
Maggie Stiefvater
4 quotes“Now is the time to make sure we have the strings of all the balloons we want to keep before they all float away.”
T. S. Eliot
3 quotes“You cannot face it steadily, but this thing is sure,That time is no healer: the patient is no longer here.”
William Penn
3 quotes“Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.”
James Joyce
3 quotes“Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”
Julian Barnes
3 quotes“And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.”
Jane Austen
3 quotes“Time will explain.”
Pericles
3 quotes“Time is the wisest counsellor of all.”