Time Quotes
These quotes are, uh, timeless.
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In the immortal words of Ke$ha, tik tok. Click on any time quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.
"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'"Source: Jeremiah 29:10-14 | Speaker: The Prophet Jeremiah
"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."Source: February 5, 2008 Speech | Speaker: Barack Obama
"Hey, Dr. Jones. No time for love!"Source: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Speaker: Short Round
"Hey, where did we go? Days when the rains came..."Source: "Brown-Eyed Girl" | Speaker: Van Morrison
"I believe it is peace for our time."Source: Speech outside 10 Downing Street | Speaker: Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
"I can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Author: Lewis Carroll
"I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom."Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Author: Frederick Douglass
"I heard it through the grapevine, not much longer would you be mine."Source: I Heard It Through the Grapevine | Speaker: Marvin Gaye
"I never knew me a better time, and I guess I never will."Source: "Crocodile Rock" | Speaker: Elton John
"I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away."Source: (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay | Speaker: Otis Redding
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."Source: 1984 | Author: George Orwell
"It's the end of the world as we know it"Source: "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" | Speaker: R.E.M.
"My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time."Source: David Copperfield | Author: Charles Dickens
"Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything."Source: A Wrinkle in Time | Author: Madeleine L'Engle
"See that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet."Source: The Gospel of Matthew | Speaker: Jesus of Nazareth
"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."Source: What is Called Thinking? | Author: Martin Heidegger
"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."Source: The Truth About Forever | Author: Sarah Dessen
"We can't go on together with suspicious minds."Source: "Suspicious Minds" | Speaker: Elvis Presley
"We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice."Source: "The Celebration of Negro History Week" in The Journal of Negro History | Author: Carter G. Woodson
"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year."Source: "Wish You Were Here" | Speaker: Pink Floyd
"You ain't nothing but a hound dog, crying all the time."Source: "Hound Dog" | Speaker: Elvis Presley
