Pete Townshend Quotes

You can't halt time.

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

It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.

Time moves on for everyone.

Time catches everyone. Sooner or later, it gets everybody.

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

Time marks us while we are marking time.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

How terrible a thing time is.

That's life's big joke: we all end up looking like Mr. Burns.

Time is undefeated.

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.

Oh, the years fly by, that's just natural.

Father Time is the enemy none of us can beat.

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.

There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.