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Quotes About Daybreak

It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Morning to ye! Morning to ye!
~ Herman Melville
soon as rosy-fingered morning came forth from the first grey dawn
~ Homer
Put your guns away and get him out,' he ordered brusquely. 'I'll keep you covered. Be careful of him. I don't want a corpse. And hurry up, it's getting light.
~ Ian Fleming
The dawn was beginning to bloom around him, and already the land was held in that surreal stillness that heralds the transition between night and day.
~ Storm Constantine
When once thy day shall burst to flower, When once the sun shall climb the sky, And busy hour by busy hour, The urgent noontide draws anigh...
~ Susan Coolidge
Every morning I rise when it is pitch black outside (and you know it's not natural to be up if the sun couldn't even be bothered to get up)
~ Cecelia Ahern
11:47, positively crack-of-dawn for me.
~ Gayle Forman
Fingers of light are starting to pry open the night sky.
~ Gayle Forman
They slept so soundly, though, nothing would wake them before daybreak. That was obvious. They could pass from sleep to death without even realising it.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
~ Paul P. Harris
They stood in the noon of that strange and solemn splendour, as if it were the light that is to reveal all secrets, and the daybreak that shall unite all who belong to one another.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The time a man wakes up is his morning.
~ Chinua Achebe
I don't find the early mornings difficult.
~ Sara Cox
You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.
~ Tom Robbins
However bright a torch might burn it could never match the rising sun.
~ George R.R. Martin
That was the day without a dawn.
~ George R.R. Martin
The morning is wiser than the evening.
~ Russian proverb
The morning has gold in its mouth.
~ German proverb
The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
~ Pope John XXIII
I could love you all night, Raven," he murmured enticingly against her throat. His hands moved over her body, leaving fire in their wake. "I want to love you all night." "Isn't that the point? It's dawn." Her hands had a mind of their own, finding every defined muscle with her fingertips, stroking across his hard male form, seeking her own exploration. "Then I will spend the day making love to you.
~ Christine Feehan
It was as though the great black bird which had all the night nested the egg of the earth lifted its wings and let light under and then with gigantic thrust of pinion flew upwards and it was day.
~ Glendon Swarthout
Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?
~ Ernest Hemingway
Gehurkt aan de waterrand volgde ik het wonder. De sterren verbleekten, de hemel werd lichter, en tegen het licht tekenden met fijne pen de bergen, de bomen, de meeuwen zich af. De dag brak aan.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis