Quotes and Sayings About Dawn
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
-- Al StewartSource : Song: Roads to Moscow
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
-- Alan PatonSource : Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.251, Simon and Schuster
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But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent—
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One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.
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Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
-- Alfred Jarry -
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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
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Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.
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I shall pass Dawn on her way to earth, as I seek for a path through space.
-- Anne Reeve AldrichSource : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1892). “Songs about Life, Love and Death”
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All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.
-- Anne Rice -
There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.
-- Archibald MacLeishSource : Archibald MacLeish (1985). “Collected Poems, 1917-1982”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure in all rowing.
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What started as a whisper Slowly turned into a scream Searching for an answer Where the question is unseen I don't know where you came from And I don't know where you've gone Old friends become old strangers Between the darkness and the dawn
-- Ben HarperSource : Song: Amen Omen, Album: Diamonds on the Inside, 2003
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Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!
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The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.
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How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.
-- Bill W.Source : Bill W. (1976). “Alcoholics Anonymous: the story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism”
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On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world.
-- Bliss CarmanSource : Bliss Carman, Richard Hovey (1905). “Songs from Vagabondia”
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Little by little deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.
-- Bo LozoffSource : Bo Lozoff (2001). “It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice”, p.128, Penguin
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I've always like the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am.
-- Brian Andreas -
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 -
You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
-- Cameron Diaz -
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Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.
-- Cameron DokeySource : Cameron Dokey, Tracy Lynn, Liz Braswell (2015). “Once Again: Snow; Beauty Sleep”, p.287, Simon and Schuster
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A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of the milky way
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So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.
-- Catharine MacKinnonSource : Catharine A. MacKinnon (2007). “Are Women Human?”, p.53, Harvard University Press
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A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies.
-- Che Guevara -
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A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
-- Claude Debussy -
Your god must once have stood at a dawn of infinite possibilities, and this is what he's made of it. You tell me that I want God's love? I don't. Perhaps I want forgiveness, but there's no-one to ask it of. And there's no going back, there's no setting things right, there's only the hope of nothingness.
-- Cormac McCarthy