Quotes about Time
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
"Well, I don`t think rocks would be very interesting to God," I said. "They just sit on the ground and erode." "You think that way because you are unable to see the storm of activity at the rock`s molecular level or the level beneath that, and so on. And you are limited by your perception of time. If you watched a rock your entire life it would never look different. But if you were God and could observe the rock over fifteen billion years as though only a second had passed, the rock would be frantic with activity. It would be shrinking and growing and trading matter with its environment. Its molecules would travel the universe and become a partner to amazing things that we could never imagine. By contrast, the odd collection of molecules that make a human being will stay in that arrangement for less time than it takes the universe to blink.
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
They say that good things take time but really great things happen in a blink of an eye.
The three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.