Evening Quotes - Page 37

• In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Fall, Autumn

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• The wild swan hurries hight and noises loud
  With white neck peering to the evening clowd.
  The weary rooks to distant woods are gone.
  With lengths of tail the magpie winnows on
  To neighbouring tree, and leaves the distant crow
  While small birds nestle in the edge below.

  John Clare

  Fall, White, Swans

  John Clare, “Autumn Birds”

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• The stillness of the early morning scene enables me to take in and enjoy many things which pass me by during the bustle of the day. First, there are the scents, which seem even more generous with their offerings than they are in the evening.

  Rosemary Verey

  Morning, Offering, Generosity

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• Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

  John Milton

  Life, Queens, Twilight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 598

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• My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years ago, when I established myself here, there was nothing but a farmhouse and a poor orchard...I bought the house and little by little I enlarged and organized it...I dug, planted weeded, myself; in the evenings the children watered.

  Claude Monet

  Children, Garden, Years

  Claire Joyes, Claude Monet (1975). “Monet at Giverny”, Wh Smith Pub

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• The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny, New Year, Holiday

  "Happy New Year" by Ligaya Mishan, www.newyorker.com. December 29, 200.

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• Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of Art—inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart— builder of every home—kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody, for Music is the voice of Love.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Mother, Dream

  "Lectures and Essays (a Selection)".

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• Young girls envy the life yall leading, never satisfied with a nice calm evening

  Drake

  Girl, Nice, Humble

  Song: Houstatlantavegas, Album: So Far Gone

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• Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Flower, Twilight, Fire

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Play, Long

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Clicking of Cuthbert”, p.241, The Floating Press

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• Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that -one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

  John Keats

  Book, Wine, Doors

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• Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour of the day. And as the hermit's evening hymn goes up from the deep solitude below me, I experience that serene exaltation of sentiment of which music, literature, and religion are but the faint types and symbols.

  John Burroughs

  Twilight, Hymns, Solitude

  John Burroughs (2012). “In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs”, p.100, tredition

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• When you've always worked hard in the theatre, you find that, when you stop playing, at the end of a run, the evenings seem very long indeed. You have to find something to keep yourself occupied with because you're so used to gearing yourself up to that eight o'clock curtain, but to find any kind of real, absorbing alternative is impossible. Nobody is as interesting to spend an evening with as a really good part.

  Rex Harrison

  Running, Art, Long

  "A damned serious business".

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• My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?'

  Trey Parker

  Girlfriend, Home, People

  "Missionary Position: The Mormon Musical". Interview with Jesse Green, www.elle.com. February 24, 2011.

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• If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Morning, Advice, Together

  Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

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• The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person leaves vivid memories; one spent with interesting people has merely a sort of bouquet.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Memories, People, Interesting

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• I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.

  Sydney Brenner

  Travel, Morning, Home

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• I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

  Victoria Beckham

  Running, Travel, Morning

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• Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunset

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• [A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society.

  Theophile Gautier

  Lying, Cat, Knees

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• We live in a flash of light; evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.

  Anthony de Mello

  Night, Light, Worry

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• Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

  Clifford Stoll

  Technology, Two, Yellow

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• By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Moon, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.

  Boris Pasternak

  Party, Farewell, Secret

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• Kindle the taper like the steadfast star
  Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth,
  And add each night a lustre till afar
  An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.

  Emma Lazarus

  Stars, Night, Shining

  Emma Lazarus, John Hollander (2005). “Selected Poems”, p.87, Library of America

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