“It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever.” IfsRememberHoursWatchesForeverSeasonsLifetimeClockImmortalityLive ForeverMillennium Book:Dreams of elsewhere: the selected travel writings of Robert Louis Stevenson Source: Dreams of elsewhere: the selected travel writings of Robert Louis Stevenson
“. . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always busy work I do with my left hand, and part of me watches grudging the wastes of a lifetime.” ChildrenHandsLeftWatchesWasteLifetimeBusySatisfiedMy ChildrenServantHeelsLeft HandBusy Work Book:An Anthropologist at Work Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“It was an experience of a lifetime to sit only a few feet away from him [Castro] and watch him relive an experience he lived as a very young man.” MenYoungWatchesFeetLifetimeYoung ManCastro Author:Kevin Costner
“If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign that something really serious is going on.” IfsWatchesSeriousLifetimeSpeciesExtinction Author:Elizabeth Kolbert