George Washington Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

• The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.

  George Washington

  Sleep, Army, Reflection

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1776). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.243

• I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.

  George Washington

  Death, Father, Moving

  George Washington (1839). “Life”, p.407

• Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

  George Washington

  Sleep, Speak, Should

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.412

• The truth of the matter is one knows what it's like being the president. Not I, nor any president to come hence. This is because life, thankfully, offers deeper quandaries. While in office, I would often wake up in a daze, wondering how I could wiggle my toes without even thinking it so, or why hair grows only on certain places and not our entire bodies, or why we aren't completely bald, or why we must close our eyes and sleep every night, or any of the millions of particulars of daily existence, let alone that I was elected the leader of an entire nation.

  George Washington

  Sleep, Eye, Thinking

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