Golden Hour Quotes:

A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time... Everything was touched with magic.

- Margaret Bourke-White

topic: Photography, Magic, Golden, Golden Hour

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

- Horace Mann

topic: Life, Time, Sunset, Times Gone By, Sunrise And Sunset

Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Golden, Firsts, Hours, Golden Hour

Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Weed, Flower, Earth, Golden Hour

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.

- Og Mandino

topic: Positive, Good Morning, Success, Special Gifts, Live Each Day

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

- James M. Barrie

topic: Time, Golden, Hours, Wasting Your Time, Wasted My Time

What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?

- Paul Valery

topic: Pain, Loss, Golden, Golden Hour

Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.

- Charles Fletcher Dole

source: Charles Fletcher Dole (1906). “The Hope of Immortality: Our Reasons for it”

topic: Vision, Working Together, Golden, Golden Hour

The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.

- Robert Burns

source: 1789 'Highland Mary', stanza 2.

topic: Life, Sweet, Angel, Angel Wings, Golden Hour

I'm not one of those people who wakes up and thinks, 'Bring on the day!' I have to have about 7 pints of coffee before I'm even remotely awake. But I love the golden hour in the evening, as hokey as that sounds. Just as the sun is about to set and you get those lovely shadows and everything looks gold and yellow.

- Stacy London

topic: Coffee, Thinking, Yellow, Golden Hour

It's an old, established rule, but "golden hour" lighting is ideal because the first and last hours of sunlight are diffuse and warm. For that reason, women with photos taken outside during those hours tended to look great.

- Amy Webb

topic: Taken, Looks, Golden, Firsts And Lasts, Golden Hour

I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea siren who sings to you, riding her bicycle of corals and conches. But above all I sing a common thought that joins us in the dark and golden hours. The light that blinds our eyes is not art. Rather it is love, friendship, crossed swords.

- Federico Garcia Lorca

source: Federico García Lorca, “Ode To Salvador Dali”

topic: Art, Eye, Dark, Golden Hour

History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.

- Paddy Ashdown

source: "Lessons in Foreign Intervention". news.bbc.co.uk. June 11, 2007.

topic: Jobs, Ambition, Home, Golden Hour

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

- Isaac D'Israeli

topic: Men, Genius, Care, Golden Hour, Creatures Of Habit

Let us drink together, fellows, as we did in days of yore. And still enjoy the golden hours that Fortune has in store; The absent friends remembered be, in all that’s sung or said, And Love immortal consecrate the memory of the dead.

- Albert Pike

source: Albert Pike, “Re-Union”

topic: Memories, Together, And Love, Absent Friends, Golden Hour

Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?

- Vera Brittain

topic: Honesty, People, Sorrow, Golden Hour

And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain!

- John Greenleaf Whittier

source: John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.260

topic: Rain, Flower, Golden, Thanksgiving Day, Golden Hour

Don't do small stuff early in your energy cycle or you'll blow your 'golden hours,' but occasionally you have to do the 'possible' to develop the momentum for the killer task.

- Helen Gurley Brown

topic: Blow, Stuff, Killers, Golden Hour, Small Stuff

I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition ... these pestilential clerk-faces always in one's dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk!

- Charles Lamb

topic: Wall, Tired, Air, Philistines, Golden Hour