Morning Mist Quotes:

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Love, Life, Good Morning, Life Is Precious, Funny Good Morning

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

- Henny Youngman

topic: Funny, Good Morning, Laughter, Funny Good Morning, Morning After

For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.56, Lulu.com

topic: Song, Morning, Night, Morning Mist, Boundless

In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.

- Robert Hass

topic: Morning, Pain, Spring, Morning Mist, Pale Yellow

I returned to the courtyard and saw that the sun had grown weaker. Beautiful and clear as it had been, the morning (as the day approached the completion of its first half) was becoming damp and misty. Heavy clouds moved from the north and were invading the top of the mountain, covering it with a light brume. It seemed to be fog, and perhaps fog was also rising from the ground, but at that altitude it was difficult to distinguish the mists that rose from below and those that come down from above. It was becoming hard to discern the bulk of the more distant buildings.

- Umberto Eco

topic: Beautiful, Morning, Clouds, Invading, Morning Mist

I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Thinking, Fire, Long Ago, Meadows, Morning Mist

The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.

- Yevgeny Zamyatin

topic: Love, Kind, Life Is, Morning Mist, Hazy

Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly teaches me that both of us can never live by our own words and deeds, but only by that one Word and deed that really binds us together, the forgiveness of sins in Jesus Christ? The bright day of Christian community dawns wherever the early morning mists of dreamy visions are lifting

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Christian, Jesus, Morning, Morning Mist, Disillusionment

I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.

- Charles Dickens

source: Great Expectations ch. 59 (1862 ed.)

topic: Morning, Light, Long Ago, Morning Mist, Expanse

A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage.

- Isak Dinesen

topic: Morning, Thinking, Long, Giraffe, Morning Mist

Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and - as George Orwell said - “old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist” and if we get our way - Shakespeare still read even in school.

- John Major

source: John Major's speech to the Conservative Group for Europe, www.johnmajor.co.uk. April 22, 1993.

topic: Country, Dog, Morning, Morning Mist, Old Maids

I had seen a herd of Buffalo, one hundred and twenty-nine of them, come out of the morning mist under a copper sky, one by one, as if the dark and massive, iron-like animals with the mighty horizontally swung horns were not approaching, but were being created before my eyes and sent out as they were finished.

- Isak Dinesen

source: Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

topic: Morning, Eye, Dark, Copper, Morning Mist

When the last deer disappears into the morning mist, When the last elk vanishes from the hills, When the last buffalo falls on the plains, I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom.

- Chief Joseph

topic: Morning, Fall, Hunting, Morning Mist, Elk

A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

- John Major

topic: Country, Dog, Morning, Morning Mist, Old Maids