Dawn Quotes - Page 27

• Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Morning, Water, Sunrise

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.62

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• The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

  Honore de Balzac

  Believe, Men, Europe

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• O fresh-lit dawn! immortal life!
  O Earth's betrothal, sweet and true!

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Sweet, Spring, Earth

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1869). “The Blameless Prince: And Other Poems”, p.164

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• But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sweet, Dust, Tree

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.69, Wordsworth Editions

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• You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Children, Two

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• It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.

  Bill Vaughan

  Christian, Real, Splendor

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• There's nothing terrible in death;
  'Tis but to cast our robes away,
  And sleep at night, without a breath
  To break repose till dawn of day.

  Robert Montgomery

  Death, Sleep, Night

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• A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Beautiful, Tears, Dew

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.234

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• I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease. . .. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

  Ronald Reagan

  Sunset, Journey, Alzheimer's

  Letter to the American people, 5 Nov. 1994

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• Some must delve when the dawn is nigh;
  Some must toil when the noonday beams;
  But when might comes, and the soft winds sigh,
  Every man is a King of Dreams.

  Clinton Scollard

  Dream, Kings, Men

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• Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Sight, Long, People

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

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• In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.

  Sappho

  Gold, Thieves, Sandals

  Sappho (1965). “Lyrics in the Original Greek”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]

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• ...if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.

  William Allen White

  Food, Cooking, Beef

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• Yet never sleep the sun up. Prayer shou'd
  Dawn with the day. There are set, awful hours
  'Twixt heaven and us. The manna was not good
  After sun-rising; far day sullies flowres.
  Rise to prevent the sun; sleep doth sin glut,
  And heaven's gate opens when the world's is shut.

  Henry Vaughan

  Prayer, Sleep, Heaven

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1847). “Silex scintillans. Sacred poems and private ejaculations (with a mem. by H.F. Lyte).”, p.56

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• the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, Dog, Sorry

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• I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing something unpermissible stage.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Beautiful, Caring, Degenerates

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• Up at the crank of dawn.

  Jane Ace

  Crank

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• What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.

  Stella Benson

  Real, Voice, Laughing

  Stella Benson (2012). “Living Alone”, p.65, tredition

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• The patriarchal, the Jewish, and the Christian dispensations, are evidently but the unfolding of one general plan. In the first we see the folded bud; in the second the expanded leaf; in the third the blossom and the fruit. And now, how sublime the idea of a religion thus commencing in the earliest dawn of time; holding on its way through all the revolutions of kingdoms and the vicissitudes of the race; receiving new forms, but always identical in spirit; and, finally, expanding and embracing in one great brotherhood the whole family of man! Who can doubt that such a religion was from God?

  Mark Hopkins

  Christian, Men, Ideas

  Mark Hopkins (2009). “Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity”, p.196, Applewood Books

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• Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Flower, Heaven, Grace

  Thomas Guthrie (1859). “Christ and the inheritance of the saints”, p.22

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• free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

  Tamora Pierce

  Midnight, Rewards, Illusion

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Alanna: The First Adventure”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Summer, Grief, Unique

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• Then shoulder to shoulder! Let us engirdle the little circle of the earth with the chains that bind us to each other. To one end let us aim our thoughts, and to one end let us aim our souls. Hail, dawn of liberty, behind thee is the redeeming sun.

  Adam Mickiewicz

  Circles, Chains That Bind, Soul

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• Dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the black boughs of the thorns. The wind was the furious voice of this sluggish animal light that was baring the dormers and mullions and scullions of Cold Comfort Farm.

  Stella Gibbons

  Animal, Wind, Voice

  Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can!

  Gertrude Bell

  Morning, Heart, Opal

  Gertrude Bell (2012). “The Desert and the Sown: Travels in Palestine and Syria”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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