White house Quote by Richard Brautigan

“She philosophically noted dates as they came past in the revolution of the year. Her own birthday, and every other day individualized by incidents…

— Thomas Hardy

“On a bright Sunday morning in the early years of the last century,”

— Cynthia Voigt

“Why did you measure the days and nights? To know. Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it…

— Mitch Albom

“I was born in the age of "alas".”

— Pat Conroy

“It is June 27, 1912. You are lying in your bed in the Grand Hotel and it is 6 p.m. on the evening of…

— Richard Matheson

It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Time is given to every person in equal measure per day”

— Sunday Adelaja

“My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.”

— Robertson Davies

“and the very old men--some in their brushed Confederate uniforms--on the porch and the lawn, talking of Miss Emily as if she had been…

— William Faulkner

“The clock in the church tower said 4.32, as it had done for three hundred years. It was right once a day and that…

— Spike Milligan

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

— Alexander Pope

“For her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the…

— Paulo Coelho The Alchemist