Dawn Quotes - Page 36

• Speaking of birthdays, our firstborn [recently turned 2]. As parents sometimes fondly do, we reminisced a bit about his early days on earth-the excitement, the wonder, the fears when we brought him home. His every squeak or squawk we were sure heralded some terrible crisis; I tested the warmth of formulas from dusk to dawn, it seemed. We were so germ-conscious my wife even sterilized the skin of the oranges before squeezing them. How firstborns ever survive their parents' attentions is beyond me. However, they do, and he did, and, in spite of our efforts, he turned out to be quite a good guy.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Children, Home, Orange

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• The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair.

  Winston Churchill

  Ambition, Men, Play

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.

  Helen Keller

  Ideas, Brotherhood, World

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Twilight, Gone, Earth

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1875). “Songs of Many Seasons : 1862-1874”, p.110

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• You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

  Harrison Ford

  Gratitude, Grateful, Appreciate

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• Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiring, Home, Adventure

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.149, Xist Publishing

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• Sometimes, the darkest part of the morning is just before dawn

  Janette Oke

  Morning, Sometimes

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• Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the perspiration of the sky or a sort of saliva of the stars, or the moisture of the air purging itself, nevertheless it brings with it the great pleasure of its heavenly nature. It is always of the best quality when it is stored in the best flowers.

  Pliny the Elder

  Stars, Flower, Food

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• Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it takes up about five billion gigabytes of storage space. Now were creating that much data every two days

  Eli Pariser

  Communication, Data, Two

  Eli Pariser (2011). “The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think”, p.16, Penguin

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• I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you're strangers. Maybe that's what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up.

  Mark Lawrence

  Growing Up, Thinking, Littles

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.216, Penguin

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• I have seen faith rise 'mountain high' when the truth of God's present love and compassion begins to dawn upon the minds and hearts of the people. It is not what God can do, but what we know He yearns to do, that inspires faith.

  F. F. Bosworth

  Heart, Compassion, People

  F. F. Bosworth (2001). “Christ the Healer”, p.74, Chosen Books

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• It's a new dawn, it's a new day...and I'm feeling good.

  Nina Simone

  New Day, Feel Good, Feelings

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• Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
  If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
  Would scarcely know that we were gone.

  Sara Teasdale

  Nature, Spring, Animal

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.90, Рипол Классик

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• Only a few years ago did it suddenly dawn on me that my existential fear regarding my nation’s future and my moral outrage regarding my nation’s occupation policy are not unconnected. On the one hand, Israel is the only nation in the West that is occupying another people. On the other hand, Israel is the only nation in the West that is existentially threatened. Both occupation and intimidation make the Israeli condition unique. Intimidation and occupation have become the two pillars of our condition.

  Ari Shavit

  Unique, Hands, Years

  Ari Shavit (2013). “My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel”, p.10, Spiegel & Grau

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• The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.

  Wasif Ali Wasif

  Darkness, Age, Periods

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• If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment.

  Simon Van Booy

  Rain, Airports, Sight

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.50, Oneworld Publications

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• The life that the dawn brings us is the only life we have. Life
  is in the here and now, not in the there and afterwards.

  Vimala Thakar

  Life Is, Here And Now

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• Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close: — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves.

  John Ruskin

  Morning, Short Life, Done

  "Lectures on Art: Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870".

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• What I saw was just one eye
  In the dawn as I was going:
  A bird can carry all the sky
  In that little button glowing.
  Never in my life I went
  So deep into the firmament.

  Harold Monro

  Eye, Glowing, Sky

  Harold Monro, “The Bird At Dawn”

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• Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming

  Rumi

  Dark, Patient, Be Patient

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• The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Horizon, Spirit, Immortal

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• Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Fall, Wind, Firsts

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.79, New World Library

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• You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.

  Napoleon Hill

  Civilization, Leader, Dreamer

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.30, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Turns out we've been eating the wrong things...since the dawn of civilisation

  Lewis Black

  Eating, Turns, Civilisation

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• Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Stop for a moment and let that sink in. We’re so used to evaluating everything (and everyone) by their usefulness that this thought will take a minute or two to begin to dawn on us. Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Which is to say, beauty is in and of itself a great and glorious good, something we need in large and daily doses.

  Stasi Eldredge

  Beautiful, Two, Needs

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.26, Thomas Nelson Inc

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