Hours may refer to:
- The plural of the unit of time, hour
- an expression of time using the 24-hour clock system (e.g. "1300 hours")
- Horae (Hours (mythology)), Greek deities
- Hours, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a commune in France
- 'Hours...', a 1999 album by British musician David Bowie
- Hours (album), a 2005 album by Welsh rock band Funeral For a Friend
- Carnegie Unit and Student Hour or credit-hours are a measurement of completed coursework at a college or university.
- The Hours (film), a 2002 drama film directed by Stephen Daldry
- The Hours (novel), a 1998 novel written by Michael Cunningham
- Canonical hours or liturgical hours, divisions of the day which are accompanied by prayers from the liturgy of the hours
- Book of Hours, a printed book or often a manuscript containing prayers for such hours (e.g. the "Hours of Catherine of Cleves")
Famous quotes containing the word hours:
“I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.”
—John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937)
“My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that “Carpe Diem” is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds—for who can trust to tomorrow?”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)