T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The yearbook voted me most likely to be scraped off an onramp by a puking fireman.”
“The yearbooks have arrived. Everyone seems to understand this ritual but me. You hunt down every person who looks vaguely familiar and get them to write in your yearbook that the two of you are best friends and you'll never forget each other and remember _______ class (fill in the blank) and have a great summer. Stay sweet.”
Source: Speak
“The yeare doth nothing else but open and shut.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“The yearly tradition of Christmas is bountifully supported - without the need to ever fade.”
Source: The Soulful Pathway to Christmas: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to positively inspire you at Christmas
“The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization.”
“The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.”
Source: Self-consciousness: memoirs
“The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.”
“The yearning for study was always there. I loved to learn. I really enjoyed studying
history. Taking college classes was just something I wanted to do. It gave me such a
feeling of satisfaction.”
“The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from the elements of a sometimes successful civil religion based around a sentimental, indeed sometimes teary-eyed, attachment to the constitution and a belief in the quasi-divine wisdom of the founding fathers.”
“The yearning heart of God delivers and redelivers sinners who find themselves drowning in the sewage of their life, twenty-nine chapters deep, in need of a rescue that they cannot even begin on their own, let alone complete.”
“The Yearning Steeple by Stewart Stafford
God hesitates to take the kindest;
The recycled tradeoff ending life,
Heaven's thundering, fiery stage,
Echoes Calvary's conflicted strife.
Undeserved things appear guided,
To the apex altruists of all people,
Finding beacons in cast down flame,
That guide us to our final steeple.
A world masquerades as meritocracy,
In its numbing gales, forge aesthetics,
"Leaders" tease our carrot cravings,
"Rewards" crack mirrors of core ethics.
Random flip of the Reaper's coin?
Tidal fades of the mirage of youth,
The story routinely ends the same.
We slake our thirst with unclean fruit.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
“The yearning to be Afghan, to be part of the country, part of the land helped me separate myself from the casual traveler and claim my Afghan identity.”
“The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its source.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“The years 1781 to 1793 are crucial for many reasons, but chiefly because they pose in an especially clear way the main problem of German philosophy for the next century. This is the old conflict between reason and faith which recurred during the pantheism controversy between Jacobi and Mendelssohn.”
“The years 19 and 20 are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you’re that age, it will cause you pain when you’re older. It’s true. So think about it carefully.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“The years after 2000 will be a monumental change in the way life is lived here. It will be harder and harder to relate to our children. I don't know what it's going to be. I don't plan to be around in the year 2000. I'll be taken away by the Sufi God.”
“The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.”
“The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate.. headed for New York City, ready to offer the world his talent.
The world, I discovered, was not all that interested.
I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.”
“The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.”
“The years are like wine — you go on ahead, we’ll catch up.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“The years are still mad and glad in May ... it is only we who have changed.”
Source: The Blythes Are Quoted
“The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.”
Source: Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose
“The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.”
Source: The Promise of American Life
“The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.”
“The years between leaving school and actually becoming an adult are very important years. You make a lot of choices as to the type of life you want to lead and what type of person you want to be. There were so many people who had opinions of me, a lot of them very unflattering, that it was hard to make up my mind about who I was supposed to be.”
“The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life.”
Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories
“The years came and went, the children came and left. The worst of getting old is not tiredness and aches and pains, but that time rushes on so quickly, that in the end it doesn't seem to exist. It's Christmas and then it's Easter. It's a clear winter's day and then a hot summer's day. In between it's a vacuum.”
“The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.”
“The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.”
Source: Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)
“The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.”
“The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything.”
“The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.”
“The years have gone by quickly. Death sits in the seat next to me. We make a lovely couple.”
Source: Come On In!: New Poems
“The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.”
“The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.”
“The years I spent in a Steelers uniform & the years I spent in the military stressed the importance of teamwork and the sacrifices you had to make to accomplish the mission. And each emphasized individual responsibility and accountability.”
“The years I spent pining for her, trying to subtly convince her that I was the man she needed to be with was what made me realize that I was competing with every man she knew for one ultimate goal. Just like a sporting event where her affections are the prize. And just like in a contest with athletes, I was completely outmatched. An amateur playing a game with experienced professionals.”
Source: Counting Losses
“The years I would have spent at University, I spent building Student Magazine and Virgin Records. For me that was far more fun and satisfying. I have treated everyday as the University education I never had and think I learnt more about business and life than I would have at University in the process.”
“The years in captivity fuels character development”
“The years in your life
are less important
than the life in your years.”
“The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.”
“The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.”
“The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“The years nowadays don't pass the way the old ones used to.”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“The years of disillusion, the long debate of who-belongs-to-who, gathered at the mighty feet of the Bangladesh Liberation War like flood waters rising, gathering thick weeds and crusty dirt and pulling it all in one direction. At times, when the body count was high and the air tasted like bloody ash, the way mass graves smell, Sariyah had wondered what progress was supposed to taste like. Often it tasted like unanswered questions, stuck in the teeth. Bangladesh had given her the true answer, though: progress at its best is home-grown. It should taste like joy – pure, unhindered joy. Like the freshest sun-ripened mango on a tree, a little sunrise in her palm.”
Source: Without Shame
“The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.”
Source: The Sense of Wonder