Top 252 Our Time Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Our Time Quotes from famous people such as Stockard Channing, James Meredith, Samuel Johnson, Samantha Fox, Billy Joel, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot

I think that’s the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there’s not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.
Stockard Channing
Only the family of God can solve the problems of our time.
James Meredith
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
Samuel Johnson
I can’t beleive I’m here to tell the tale, this was my first brush with death, and God must have been looking after us and obviously, it wasn’t our time.
Samantha Fox
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
Billy Joel
If you look at Arsenal today, I really enjoy watching them play – they play some really good football – but that is not enough to win football matches or to win competitions. But in our time, we were winning, and we had the strength to not play well but somehow manage to win the game 1-0.
Patrick Vieira
Randy Newman and I grew up together in Los Angeles. We are both products of the film studio era. Randy is one of the great songwriters of our time and one of the fun people to be with.
Leonard Slatkin
The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature’s transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.
Thomas Kuhn
We live in a time where there’s a great deal of navel-gazing with the devices that we have that occupy so much of our time… many subjects of history are lost.
Ng Chin Han
My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She’s a writer as well, I’m a writer, we spend most of our time writing, and kind of going to yoga in Brooklyn.
Mike Birbiglia
We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don’t want anymore.
D. B. Weiss
Writers are not obliged to deal with current events, but it happens that the big story of our times – the al-Qaida attacks on New York and the Pentagon, and the subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – is being told in some of the greatest books of our time.
Geoff Dyer
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
Jackie Robinson
We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
I don’t know if people know this about me, but I’m into Billy Joel. I’m a huge fan of his and always have been. He’s just a quintessential songwriter of our time. Talk about a storied career – so many classic songs and great albums.
John Petrucci
I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
Alain de Botton
Pele was the best of his era, Diego Maradona was the Pele of the Eighties, and Ronaldinho is the Pele of our time.
Cafu
I’m not against shock and horror. In fact, I really belive in facing the dark realities of our time as the first step in coming out of denial. So we have to look into the darkness.
Chris Jordan
John Travolta, I don’t think anybody would not jump at a chance to work with a guy like him because he’s gone from ‘Grease’ to ‘Face Off’ to, he’s gonna do ‘Dallas.’ I mean, he’s so great in his range, and he’s truly a legend and a pro in our time.
Elijah Kelley
The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will remain episodes. Despite a deepening of our conceptions of life, we will build no cathedrals.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.
Barack Obama
Nothing changes if we spend all our time worrying about the teams above us, so all we can do is win our next match.
Shinji Kagawa
I’m a closeted nerd. I studied Richard Dawkins. I watched every lecture. He’s sort of the leading scientific atheist of our time. He’s very provocative. His whole thing is science over spirituality.
Michael Pitt
We spend all our time teaching reading and writing. We spend absolutely no time at all, in most schools, teaching either speaking or, more importantly still, listening.
Julian Treasure
Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we’ve ever done.
Fred Durst
Do we really want the FCC to conduct investigations and issue warnings to radio talk show hosts nationwide who simply discuss the important issues of our time? The Constitution says ‘freedom of speech,’ not ‘freedom of government-approved fair speech in rationed amounts.’
Tim Walberg
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren’t yet doing enough about it.
Frances Beinecke
I didn’t want to be an actress; I never thought of being an actress because, as children, there were three of us – I was the middle child – and we spent our time in church from Sunday morning to Saturday night.
Cicely Tyson
Our nation has abundant clean energy resources, and tapping them will generate jobs, make the air safer to breathe, and tackle climate change – the greatest environmental crisis of our time.
Frances Beinecke
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
Marshall McLuhan
I went on a cross-country trip with three buddies to fi

I went on a cross-country trip with three buddies to find out what our generation is about. I bought a video camera, started shooting, learned as I went, and ended up with ‘Our Time,’ a feature-length documentary about what it’s like to be young in America. I was hooked.
Matthew Heineman
In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it’s about looking into the future. It’s about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
Safra A. Catz
I absolutely love Johnny Depp, and I genuinely think he’s one of the best actors of our time.
Alexandra Bracken
One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.
Robert Wilson
Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it’s futile. The reality is there’s criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of the most remarkable artists of our time of any genre, and as a hip-hop artist he carries the weight of that art form with such splendor and grace and genius.
Michael Eric Dyson
Civilization in our time is driven by materialism and troubled by pollution, over-population, corruption, and violence. National parks can hardly be uncoupled from the society around them, but that only makes it more important to protect them and keep them whole and pure.
Michael Frome
A lot has changed due to the rise of smartphones and the proliferation of social media: today, visual content is the language of our time.
Mark Getty
William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.
James Dickey
Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It’s very busy up on the shuttle.
Sally Ride
College, our job is to get guys to get better. Work hard, get better and be in position so when your time comes you get to play in the NBA.
Jim Boeheim
I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor… but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
Tycho Brahe
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
Tadao Ando
It’s every woman’s tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we’ve known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.
Angela Carter
I am troubled that sometimes in our political discourse we spend all of our time focused on the challenges of the next century rather than on the opportunities of the new century.
Marco Rubio
My wife, Kathy, and I will always cherish our time in Morgantown and we will forever be Mountaineers.
Oliver Luck
How terrifically dynamic is our time! We can mobilize all the spiritual, all the moral, all the political strength of Africa and Asia on the side of peace. Yes, we! We, the people of Asia and Africa!
Sukarno
I’m not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger – and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
J. I. Packer
This is our time. This is our opportunity. Together, we will accomplish great things.
Matt Bevin
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Brokenness is the operative issue of our time – broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
Samantha Power
Our time is a time for crossing boundaries.
Pranav Mistry
In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it’s worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.
Salman Rushdie