Anna Quindlen Quotes

Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.

Our children will be as wise as we are and will establish in the fullness of time those things not yet ripe for establishment

There are lots of things about me that have changed. Some things are a process; some things take time.

Parenting makes us better in so many regards.

You can't hurry a loaf of bread. You have to wait for it to prove and rise.

Sometimes, ideas are like good wine in that they just need time.

It takes time and experience to make a person.

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.

It takes time to get the whole package. Freshmen can't be seniors.

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.

Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.

Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.

I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.

Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young.

It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.