The question we ask ourselves is not exclusively ours. People have worried over time for centuries.
Yet, they did not surrender to the anxiety. In their battle to come to terms with the arrow of time, people have discovered different means to tame their enemy. They invented the clock, the calendar, and spent countless hours trying to figure out the concept of time. One thing after another, they put their fears into words, and we are left with a good deal of wise sayings. So nowadays, whenever we struggle with scheduling our time, prioritizing, or being late, we can turn to Shakespeare or Leonardo da Vinci and see that similar issues troubled them too.
Luckily, you don’t have to spend hours combing through dusty books or hidden corners of the Internet to hear what the world’s best thinkers had to say. We already did that for you, so we present you with 200+ best time quotes.
According to Gregg Ahumada, “I can’t speak to the other references for the use of the phrase “No Matter where you go, there you are!” But not being much of a reader in high school, I remember coming up with the phrase and began saying it in by sophomore year of high school in 1971 at El Molino High School, in Forestville, CA. I did not know of any one else using this phrase until I heard mention a couple years ago on the radio, associating this phrase with Buckaroo Banzai. I had not even heard of Banzai until the late 1980’s.
According to TServo2049, “In one episode of the 80s Canadian cartoon, “The Raccoons,” Cyril Sneer says “No matter where you go, there you are.”
According to Mark Grossman, “This is pretty sad but the first time I remember hearing this quote was from the Naughty By Nature track: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Uptown-Anthem-lyrics-Naughty-By-Nature/BB320FF602BBD2A7482568B900298C0B. I love it!”
According to Kyle Kleparek, “I found this quote from Confucius (551- 479 BCE). I don’t know how accurate it is, I would guess a lot of quotes like this get attributed to him just because they have a similar style to his other quotes, and I don’t know how accurately they would translate into English.
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