"The years pass in their hundreds and their thousands, and what does any man see of life but a few summers, a few winters? We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes."

Time, Change, Eternity, Nature

10

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The years pass in their hundreds and their thousands, and what does any man see of life but a few summers, a few winters? We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes."

Exlpore more Time quotes

"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Best Use, Mind

"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

Loretta Lynn, American Musician

Time, Being

"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Time, Universe, Words

"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Time, Now, Right, Writer

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Time, Poor, Poverty, Questions

"Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Time, Nothing, Wrong, Years

"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Time, Truth, Wisdom, Change

"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."

Dave Eggers, American Writer

Time, Compassion, Listening, Open

"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Time, People, Right

"Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

Time, Projects, Writer

Explore more quotes by George R. R. Martin

"There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same."

Emotion

"Flies are the dead man's revenge."

Death

"His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin."

Symbolism

"One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right."

Reflection

"A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands."

Power

"Wolves and women wed for life."

Loyalty

"People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up."

Truth

"Hard hands and no sense of humor makes for a bad marriage."

Relationship

"My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it."

Duty

"On armageddon day,' Sandy said, 'both armies will think they fight for good. And both of them will be wrong."

War