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Quotes About Bedtime

I was told bedtime stories by my father or my grandmother. Books, I mostly read on my own in bed.
~ Khaled Hosseini
When I was a kid, my dad would let me stay up and watch 'Cheers' each week. Granted it's not the most 'kid friendly' show, but I could've cared less. I was getting to stay up past my bedtime!
~ Bart Millard
Your baby only needs a lot of light at night if he's reading or he's entertaining guests.
~ Lawrence Kutner
These cozy bedtime stories reflect a universal need that we never outgrow: the need to know that someone, somewhere, loves us without restraint or condition.
~ Gary Chapman
I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything.
~ Roma Downey
The only music we ever listened to out in the piney woods was Roy Acuff and the Grand Ole Opry. That was the only night of the week I was allowed to lay in the middle of the bed with Mama and Daddy, just long enough to hear Roy Acuff sing; then I had to go back to bed.
~ George Jones
My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
~ Hannah Kent
When I get through the front door, I haven't got time to tie my shoelaces. There are three kids, and the wife, and I make that absolutely the priority. By the time we've got the kids to bed and had a bite to eat we're in bed by 10:15 and are knackered!
~ Jeremy Kyle
And so to bed.
~ Samuel Pepys
Las niñas decentes se van a la cama a las seis de la tarde para llegar temprano a su casa".
~ Sara Sefchovich
Aria was younger and afraid to go to sleep because she thought a giant eel lived in her closet.
~ Sara Shepard
I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.
~ Diane Cilento
The game must have been past my bed-time.
~ Theo Walcott
But no one ever is allowed in Sleepytown, unless He goes to bed in time to take the Sleepytown Express!
~ James J. Montague
20:11 At what time is it acceptable to go to bed? I suspect nothing short of 10 p.m. will do. Okay, I can wait until 10 p.m. 20:14 I go to bed. I am my own person. I can do as I please. I am not hidebound by the silly, bourgeois rules of our society.
~ Marian Keyes
there is no bogeyman,' Craig said confidently. 'Mummy said.' Ted reconsidered. Surely something must scare him? Ok, if you don't go to sleep, Mick Hucknall will come and get you.' 'What's that?' 'I'll show you.' Ted nipped downstairs, grabbed the CD and ran back up. ...
~ Marian Keyes
That sound of settling into the sheets and the covers has to be one of the best things in the world. Sleep is a mercy. You can feel it coming on, like being swept up in something. She
~ Marilynne Robinson
When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.
~ Mark Gatiss
I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime.
~ Shirley Jackson
At my age an hour's reading before bedtime is essential, and I wisely brought Pamela with me. If any of you has trouble sleeping, I will read aloud to you. I never yet knew anyone who could not fall asleep with Richardson being read aloud to him.
~ Shirley Jackson
In any case," the doctor said, "I will not sleep for an hour or so yet; at my age an hour's reading before bedtime is essential, and I wisely brought Pamela with me. If any of you has trouble sleeping, I will read aloud to you. I never yet knew anyone who could not fall asleep with Richardson being read aloud to him.
~ Shirley Jackson
I never yet knew anyone who could not fall asleep with Richardson being read aloud to him.
~ Shirley Jackson
at my age an hour's reading before bedtime is essential
~ Shirley Jackson
how can i be nothing at all for hours and days at a time, and then suddenly create myself into a real person for ten minutes at bedtime?
~ Shirley Jackson