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Quotes About Day

As to the pretty girls who went past, from the day on which I had first known that their cheeks could be kissed, I had become curious about their souls. And the universe had appeared to me more interesting.
~ Marcel Proust
From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day; and with the setting sun dropped from the zenith like a falling star.
~ John Milton
Upon her Center pois'd, when on a day   (For Time, though in Eternitie, appli'd   To motion, measures all things durable   By present, past, and future) on such
~ John Milton
As to embrace me she inclined, I waked she fled and day brought back my night.
~ John Milton
THE INNER HISTORY OF A DAY No one knew the name of this day; Born quietly from deepest night, It hid its face in light, Demanded nothing for itself, Opened out to offer each of us A field of brightness that traveled ahead, Providing in time, ground to hold our footsteps And the light of thought to show the way. The mind of the day draws no attention; It dwells within the silence with elegance
~ John O'Donohue
people who were working that day, the ten-of-twelve.
~ John Sandford
I have to tell him that the sheep we're looking for is a woman who runs a pet store," Creek said. "I think telling him his younger brother's been resurrected as a computer program might be a little much for one day."   Archie
~ John Scalzi
So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world.
~ John Steinbeck
She sighed as she always does, a deep, gathered breath and a low release of luxury. Some people resent awakening, but not Mary. She comes to a day with the expectancy that it will be good.
~ John Steinbeck
In a bitter night, a mustard night that was last night, a good thought came and the dark was sweetened when the day sat down. And this thought went from evening star to the late dipper on the edge of the first light -- that our betters spoke of.
~ John Steinbeck
em.'' " 'Course you did,'' said Tom. "Always talk. If you was up on the gallows you'd be passin' the time a day with the hangman. Never seen sech a talker.
~ John Steinbeck
Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.
~ John Updike
I don't recall inclement weather on a fair day.
~ John Updike
Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
What does Sunday, the day of the Lord, mean for us? It is a day for rest and for family, but first of all a day for Him.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
it was only a hopeless fantasy, it passed like an april day, but a look and a word and the dreams they stirred they have stolen my heart away.
~ George Orwell
Fantasy appeals to me and can be very much reflected in my dress - but then, each day is different. Not every day is a magical day.
~ Daphne Guinness
I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.
~ Sia Furler
We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fantasy telling us we are bigots, racists and hate-mongers.
~ George Wallace
I am a soul in the world: in the world of my soul the whirled light from the day the sacked land of my father.
~ Amiri Baraka
I've learned what I can control is whether I am going to live a day in fear and depression and panic, or whether I am going to attack the day and make it as good a day, as wonderful a day, as I can.
~ Gilda Radner
I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith.
~ Umar
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
~ Jean Baudrillard
It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.
~ H. P. Lovecraft