Afternoon Quote by William Faulkner

“It's all now you see. Yesterday won't be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago. For every Southern boy fourteen years…

— William Faulkner

In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law.

— Phil Ochs

As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he…

— Claire Tomalin

“never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses…

— Frederick Douglass

“He is at one and the same time all and nothing, always different and yet ever the same, the Montaigne of 1550, 1560, 1570,…

— Stefan Zweig

Today is the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. President Lincoln wrote it on his way to the site of the speech on the back…

— David Letterman

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either…

— Mark Twain

“Twelve times did the iron register of time beat on the sonorous bell-metal, summoning the ghosts to rise, and walk their nightly round. -…

— Henry Fielding

“When you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast…

— Fannie Flagg

“How he loathed his life-long slavery to the clock, that pervasive intimate negative opposed to every spontaneous impulse. "It's the clock that is the…

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“..ust in time to see the long-strided watchman of the minutes catch up with his bowlegged brother of the hours. As the two embarced,…

— Amor Towles

In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.

— William Lloyd Garrison