The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984
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I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
—John Quincy Adams, 1844No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706