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Quotes About Evening

cupids instead. The plates with the remnants of that evening's
~ Liza Marklund
Luck, be a lady tonight.
~ Unknown
The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us, at noon we trample them under foot, and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us.
~ Longfellow
Dawn was her favorite time of day. Sunrise made no promises. A bright young beginning didn't necessarily foretell a glorious evening, nor did a dark and livid start mean a stormy afternoon.
~ Jill Ciment
The evening had obviously been moving along entirely too smoothly, I thought. Something had gone wrong.
~ Jim Butcher
Winter came early that year; it should have been a tip-off. A snowball soared through the evening air and smacked into my apprentice's mouth. Since she was muttering a mantra-style chant when it hit her, she wound up with a mouthful of frozen cheer—which may or may not have been more startling for her than for most people, given how many metallic piercings were suddenly in direct contact with the snow.
~ Jim Butcher
Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening.
~ Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.
~ Unknown
Each day we live is a gift,so thank God in the morning for another day of life, and thank God in the evening for getting you through the day.
~ Unknown
It was a warm evening, and there was less silk and more fine cotton than at Savita's wedding. But the jewellery glittered just as gloriously. Meenakshi's little pear-earrings, Veena's navratan and Malati's emeralds glinted across the garden, whispering to each other the stories of their owners.
~ Vikram Seth
Those who end their day by watching television rarely start it by setting up an alarm clock.
~ Unknown
It was five forty-nine on the evening of 5 May 1821, and Napoleon was not quite fifty-two years old.
~ Unknown
And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
I thought of the lines, 'And come the evening of my life, Worn out with care and strife I will, For each day granted me on earth, The air with praises to Thee fill.' Goodbye, a handshake in my thoughts, Your very loving brother Vincent
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.
~ Virginia Woolf
Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.
~ Virginia Woolf
I hate to see the evenin' sun go down.
~ Unknown
The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
~ W. H. Auden
As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming river I heard a lover sing Under an arch of the railway: 'Love has no ending. 'I'll love you, dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, 'I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.
~ W.H. Auden
There head falls forward, fatigued at evening, And dreams of home...
~ W.H. Auden
The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.
~ Curt Sachs
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
~ Jean Paul
Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I am so tired; all I want to do is sleep. I want to sleep all the day, from dawn until twilight that every evening comes a little earlier and a little more drearily. In the daytime, all I can think about is sleeping. But in the night I do is try to stay awake.
~ Philippa Gregory