Noon Quotes

• Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

  William Blake

  Good Morning, Happiness, Sleep

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

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• I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

  Bob Hope

  Birthday, Naps, Age

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• A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

  Robertson Davies

  Morning, Reading, Book

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• You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.

  Bob Dole

  Good Morning, Littles, Feels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Sweet, Time, Morning

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1877). “Verses”, p.90

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• Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

  Tennessee Williams

  Confidence, Fake People, Wine

  "New Selected Essays: Where I Live". Book edited by John S. Bak and John Lahr, New Directions Publishing, "I am widely regarded as the ghost of a writer," (1977), 2009.

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• Sometimes to find the light, you have to go through the deepest darkness.

  Jared Leto

  Light, Darkness, Sometimes

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• Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Grief, Fall, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.251, Xist Publishing

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• My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them.

  Sara Blakely

  Sweet, Husband, Night

  "Smooth Moves" by Alexandra Jacobs, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future

  Sri Aurobindo

  Past, Dawn

  Sri Aurobindo (2000). “Essays on the Gita”, p.10, SriAurobindoAshram Publication Dept

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• Nothing. And, I don't start before noon.

  Bum Phillips

  Nfl

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• He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

  James Howell

  Sleep, Names, Hypocrisy

  James Howell (1660). “Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)”

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• He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Death, Song

  "Funeral Blues" l. 9 (1936)

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• If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

  George Aiken

  Morning, Race, Color

  "Personal Quotes/ Did you know?". www.imdb.com.

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• High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

  Robert Duvall

  Corny

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• The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Moon Night, Midnight, Darkness Of Night

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.100, Broadview Press

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• When I'm not working, I definitely I like waking up at noon.

  Jena Malone

  Wake Up, Waking

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Player, Midnight

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• At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips.

  Allen Johnson

  July, Names, Philadelphia

  Allen Johnson, Edward Samuel Corwin (1926). “The age of Jefferson and Marshall: Part 1: Jefferson and his colleagues, by Allen Johnson. Part 2: John Marshall and the Constitution, by Edward S. Crowin”

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• You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Twilight, Experience, Landscape

  Woodrow Wilson (1952). “Woodrow Wilson's own story”

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• Never get out of bed before noon.

  Charles Bukowski

  Retirement, Work, Bed

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Hollywood”, p.260, Canongate Books

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• The 1,000 tasting portions were to be served over a period of six hours, starting at noon, so we would have to prep those another way, to keep them as fresh as possible.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Starting Over, Way, Six

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• Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

  Christopher Columbus

  Morning, Night, Islands

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.41

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• The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.

  Margaret Haddix

  Book, Stories, Paper

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• If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation.

  Daniela Pestova

  Beach, Morning, Vacation

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