Time Quotes

It was that which gave promise that in due time

the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men,

and that all should have an equal chance.

This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing.

Sometimes they have more imagination than men.

Someone’s sitting in the shade today

because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

We find ourselves under the government of

a system of political institutions,

conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty,

than any of which the history of former times tells us.

Politics is the art of the possible,

but sometimes the impossible can be achieved.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well

being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty.

The young are slaves to dreams;

the old servants of regrets.

Only the middle

aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time

like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company,

the enemy of the mediocre.

The butterfly counts not months but moments,

and has time enough.

Among the friends of Union,

there is great diversity of sentiment

and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

The Times They Are A

Changin'

Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary,

simply by doing them with the right people.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for,

and not against, the Union.

As I have not felt, so I have not expressed

any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren.

I have constantly declared,

as I really believed, the only difference between

them and us is the difference of circumstances.

I insist on a lot of time being spent,

almost every day,

just to sit and think.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing,

you’ll never get it done.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die At any time.

Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.

We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference,

accepting the false pattern set up by

the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.

It's when children are 15,

16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor,

an engineer,

a politician or go to the Mars or moon.

That is the time they start having a dream,

and that's the time you can work on them.

You can help them shape their dreams.

If there is not the war,

you don't get the great general;

if there is not a great occasion,

you don't get a great statesman;

if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace,

no one would have known his name.