Father Time Quotes

• When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Father, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty'”, p.25, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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• I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids.

  Steve Zahn

  Dad, Kids, Good Dad

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 6, 2003.

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• You can't stop father time... but you can show [him] down.

  Karl Malone

  Basketball, Father, Shows

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• Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

  Major Taylor

  Father, Athlete, Winning

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• Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.

  Fred Allen

  Father, Men, Average

  Fred Allen (2008). “Much Ado About Me”, p.311, Wildside Press LLC

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• And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

  Ben Gibbard

  Prayer, Father, Tiny

  "What Sarah Said". Song by Ben Gibbard and Nick Harmer, August 30, 2005.

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• I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.

  Flavor Flav

  Fun, Father, Kids

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  Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Girl, Mother

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.65, Harper Collins

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• It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.

  Robert Breault

  Father, Swings, Years

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• You're going to feel good. But no matter how much you rehab you do, you can't speed up the healing process. I would rather see a guy come back in 14 months and pitch seven, eight or nine more years then come back in 10 months and get hurt again. You cannot mess with mother nature and father time. Nature will heal it if you give it time.

  Tommy John

  Motivational, Sports, Mother

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• Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

  William Congreve

  Father, Glasses, Idlers

  William Congreve (1753). “The Works of Mr William Congreve...”, p.4

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• My father Time is weak and gray
  With waiting for a better day;
  See how idiot-like he stands,
  Fumbling with his palsied hands!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Time, Father, Hands

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “Ode to the West Wind and Other Poems”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry,
  wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only
  to manslaughter and bawdry.

  Roger Ascham

  Father, Book, Reading

  Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works. A New Ed”, p.55

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• I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

  H. G. Wells

  Funny, New Year, Time

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Rights of Man”, p.15, Penguin UK

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• A wind blew, and the sand around his drawing scattered. He wrapped his fingers inside his wife's, and Father Time rekindled a connection he had only ever had with her. He surrendered to that sensation and felt the final drops of their lives touch one another, like water in a cave, top meets bottom, Heaven meets Earth. As their eyes closed, a different set of eyes opened, and they rose from the ground as a shared south, up and up, a sun and a moon in a single sky.

  Mitch Albom

  Father, Eye, Moon

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• I'm going to go with ZZ Top -- they're my faves . . . because of the whole thing that they do with the guitars and the old Father Time beards.

  Robin Thicke

  Father, Guitar, Beard

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• Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick

  Abigail Van Buren

  Mother, Father, Dirty

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