Time Quotes

• "If your kid makes one of those little homemade guitars out of a cigar box and rubber bands, don't let him just play it once or twice and then throw it away. Make him practice on it, every day, for about three hours a day. Later, he'll thank you."
  By: Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
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• "I remember how my Great Uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out of a larger toy boat I had. It was almost as good as the first one, except now it had bumpy whittle marks all over it. And no paint, because he had whittled off the paint."
  By: Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
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• "Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought."
  By: Alexander Hamilton
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• "In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned."
  By: Jane Haddam
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• "It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses."
  By: Edgar Albert Guest
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• "The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day."
  By: M. Grundler
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• "Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House; these altogether respect personal liberty..."
  By: Senator William Grayson
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• "Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear.(promoting US exports, as quoted in Time)"
  By: Phil Gramm
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• "If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out for you in a blueprint, you don't face facts -- what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow."
  By: Ruth Gordon
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• "A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water."
  By: Sidney Goff
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• "Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• "No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated."
  By: Ellen Glasgow
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• "The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man."
  By: William E(dwart) Gladstone
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• "If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as "candle making industry threatened."
  By: Newt Gingrich
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• "On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction."
  By: A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti
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• "We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs."
  By: Harold S. Geneen
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