Quotes and Sayings About Dawn
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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 -
This is the darkest hour before dawn and we should never underestimate monetary authorities' ability to deal with the adversity.
-- Gideon Gono -
Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.
-- Gregory Orr -
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
-- Gunter Grass -
I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.
-- H. G. Wells -
Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.
-- Herbert M. Shelton -
Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.
-- Horace -
Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible.
-- Hugh B. Brown -
I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
How did the hearing go?” she asked. “We won, sort of,” Kaldar said. “We die at dawn.” “The court gave the Sheeriles twenty-four hours,” William corrected. “Yes, but ‘we die at dawn the day after tomorrow’ doesn’t sound nearly as dramatic.” “Does it have to be dramatic all the time?” Catherine murmured. “Of course. Everyone has a talent. Yours is crocheting and mine is making melodramatic statements.
-- Ilona Andrews -
This elaborate Golden Dawn system became part of Crowley's own inner world ... He carried it further than even the Golden Dawn principals had envisaged. I know of nothing within the Order documentary that even hints at the kind of visionary and spiritual experience that Crowley managed to get out of it.
-- Israel Regardie -
It was the dawn of the third age of mankind...
-- J. Michael Straczynski -
Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
-- James Wolcott -
Sometimes, the darkest part of the morning is just before dawn
-- Janette Oke -
At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
Trust in God. Hold on to His love. Know that one day the dawn will break brightly and all shadows of mortality will flee.
-- Jeffrey R. Holland -
What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down
-- Jim Morrison -
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
-- Jim Morrison -
In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining, And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea; With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn, While I carol away idle sorrow, And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn, Look forward with hope for to-morrow.
-- John Churton Collins -
I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.
-- John Dos Passos -
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point he has to tease his way through a maze of symbols of which not the tiniest suffix can be skipped.
-- John Edensor Littlewood -
Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
-- John Galsworthy -
At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.
-- John Green -
The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.
-- John McCrae -
Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn,Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!
-- John of the Cross -
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
-- John Ruskin -
Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.
-- John Ruskin
