Time Quotes

We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.

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"Time is the final judge of truth."
Richard Wright
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"Time waits for no one, so we must use it wisely."
Richard Wright
"Perhaps that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking is done."
Ralph Ellison
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"Time is both our greatest constraint and our only true currency."
Richard Wright
"I want to gather up the minutes of my life and hold them like a handful of diamonds."
Maya Angelou
"There is no time to waste on things that do not matter."
Maya Angelou
"Time moves differently for those denied the privilege of being forgotten."
Ralph Ellison
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"Time is a river of events."
Langston Hughes
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"I am here and it is now."
Alice Walker
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"The future is like heaven, everybody exalts it, but nobody wants to go there now."
James Baldwin
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"Time is a very precious thing, and it's something that can never be recaptured."
James Baldwin
"Time is what we measure life by; it becomes the essence of all narratives."
Toni Morrison
"The past always has a way of intruding upon the present in ways we cannot control."
Toni Morrison
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"Time is a flat circle."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"Time flies, but memories last forever."
Zora Neale Hurston
"We inherit both the sins and the possibilities of our ancestors."
Ralph Ellison
"Tomorrow is never promised to anyone."
Maya Angelou
"I'm not interested in time. Time is just something that fills space."
Maya Angelou
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"Time is the only currency that matters because nothing can be bought with money that is as valuable as time."
Alice Walker
"The past is a place of pride; the future a place of promise."
Toni Morrison
"Time is a gift that we cannot afford to waste on bitterness."
Toni Morrison
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"Time is the one currency we cannot get back."
Langston Hughes
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"Time moves differently for those who wait and those who act."
Richard Wright
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"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now."
James Baldwin
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"The years of our lives are our bank account of time."
James Baldwin
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"The present moment, the now, is the bridge between past and future."
James Baldwin
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"The years teach much which the days never know."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"Time is a cruel master that leaves no one unchanged."
Zora Neale Hurston
"Time reveals what intention conceals."
Ralph Ellison
"Time moves differently depending on what we're paying attention to."
Ralph Ellison