Cynthia Ozick Quotes

Time mends all, ends all things earthly.

You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.

Time bears away all things.

Time itself made all things rare.

's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.

It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesn't make sense!

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Yes, I am going to join the Majority and you know I have always preferred Minorities.

If we have as a clear certainty with which to plan, total uncertainty, then that would be helpful.

No court can make time stand still.

There's always time to grow older. You can never grow younger.

It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.

We can change everything but we can't stop time.

Time moves on for everyone.

You can't halt time.

Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.