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Quotes About Afternoon

The afternoon arrived like an aggrieved trade unionist.
~ Edward Docx
The afternoon is bright enough, but Berlin seems not to want to accept the sunlight, as though its buildings have become gloomier and dirtier and more splotchy int he months since he last visited. Though perhaps what has changed are the eyes that see it.
~ Anthony Doerr
Then an astonishing thing occurred. In the early afternoon, the wind shifted
~ Anthony Everitt
As if that were not enough, a gale came up in the afternoon, one of the fiercest in living memory
~ Anthony Everitt
I have kids. I can't hardly watch an afternoon football game with them without having to turn off the TV during the commercials. It's too much. I don't know when violence was deemed such a cinematic thing.
~ Derek Cianfrance
That afternoon the whole world seemed to devote itself to being perfect and radiantly beautiful and kind to one boy.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
The afternoon was dragging towards its mellow hour. The sun was deepening the gold of its lances, the bees were going home and the birds were flying past less often.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
the afternoon shadows gloomed the depths of the city
~ Frank Herbert
Late that afternoon they rolled into Larchmont, an old town built around a main square containing the courthouse and a Civil War monument. Stores lined the edges of the square, and the boys soon spotted the building which housed the Record's offices, which were on the second floor.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
Deutschland hat Rußland den Krieg erklärt - Nachmittag Schwimmschule. (Germany has declared war on Russia. Swimming in the afternoon) Franz Kafka, diary, August 2, 1914
~ Franz Kafka
Saturday afternoon is the hardest thing. I can go out and watch games, but I'm constantly on my phone looking at results: what score is this, what score is that. You have no real involvement, but you're obsessed with it.
~ Paul Scholes
I love movies; many an afternoon skipping school were spent in a funky, run-down Brooklyn movie theater.
~ Dan Fogler
There is always a sacred hour in the theatre - after rehearsals and before performances, in the afternoon, between three and five o'clock. Normally the theatre is empty then, and this is a wonderful hour.
~ Henning Mankell
In the afternoon, when Grace was just about to ruin her dinner with a big bowl of popcorn while looking through various online floral arrangements on her laptop, there was a light tapping at her back door. She pulled the curtain to peek out through the window in the door and was shocked to see Iris. She opened the door. "Don't newlyweds lay around in bed for several days after the wedding?
~ Robyn Carr
I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.
~ Ronald Reagan
If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full.
~ Rory McIlroy
Here is a letter from a man who heard about the practice of the A, gave way to the power of music, and transformed his life, all in the space of an afternoon.
~ Rosamund Stone Zander
She smelled of Marlboros, Aviance Night Musk, and her first drink of the late afternoon.
~ Louise Erdrich
though down here the air was warm but not blistering. If not for the mosquitoes that got in an ear or went up his nose and occasionally bit through the repellent, he would have been comfortable. The chatter of birds, the light hum of insects. He lay there listening to his stomach complain, waiting for something to happen. Toward late afternoon
~ Louise Erdrich
Who would ever ask for the fragrance of morning when faced with the twilight of afternoon?
~ Machado de Assis
The first consideration is sunlight. Roses need at least six hours each day for vigorous, healthy growth. If you have a choice between morning and afternoon
~ Maggie Oster
foliage is a breeding ground for disease. Actually, afternoon shade is beneficial in hot climates. If one area of the yard has better soil than another
~ Maggie Oster
Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.
~ Neal Shusterman
That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.
~ Raymond Carver