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Quotes About Bedtime

At this hungry and thirsty and yearning hour, with the uneasiness of the dark and the inevitability of bedtime clutching at them, something more was needed than the spidery tunnels of the furze and broom, and the clay hollows of elders and watery pits of willow, full of lean shadows.
~ Ellis Peters
White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
During the week, I usually stay home and cook a simple dinner. I go to bed early, get up early, exercise, and then on weekends, I'll go out to dinner.
~ Vanna White
I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.
~ Laura Prepon
Some of the elements of sleep hygiene are basically the same as good health practices. Nicotine, caffeine, and alcohol all negatively impact sleep, the more so the closer they're consumed to bedtime.
~ Maria Konnikova
As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.'
~ Rupert Everett
I declare an end to my day by removing my phone from my bedroom and putting it in a phone charging bed.
~ Arianna Huffington
Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.
~ Warren Farrell
I've started to really nurture a bedtime routine, which, for me, starts with caffeine-free tea, usually rooibos or jasmine tea, something soothing, very fragrant, just a reminder to get back to your senses.
~ Caroline Ghosn
I go to bed early, and normally before I do, I have a tea - it's a special tea that my doula gave me, and it takes about 25 minutes to make!
~ Margherita Missoni
What're you still doing up? You know all good little ninjas should be in bed, visions of homicidal sugarplums dancing in their heads.
~ Rob Thurman
When you undress for bed, let yourself dance as if life pleases you, then apologize when you suddenly realize she is there and put yourself straight into your blankets. Can you blush?" A
~ Robert Jordan
Little rabbits, you know, always have games together before they go to bed.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
lay on my back in the dark. He was doing the same. "Edward," I asked. "Hmm," he said. "Are you a side sleeper, or a back sleeper?" "Back." "I'm a side sleeper, so no spooning, I guess." "What?" I laughed and turned over on my side. "Good night, Edward." "Good night, Anita." We slept.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.
~ Arthur Kornberg
Every day she waits for night-time. She goes to bed at half past eight because that is the earliest time she can imagine going to bed and because that means that the day is officially over and she doesn't have to do anything more about it. About anything.
~ Ahdaf Soueif
Her mother always said one should never go to bed on an argument.
~ Alain de Botton
Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk." "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
It was so unlike her not to be able to sleep. No matter what was going on, she was usually out the second her head hit the pillow.
~ Diane Chamberlain
Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax.
~ Dianne Hales
Before I could answer, Conrad said, "She's fine, and now it's time for bed. Good night, Belly.
~ Jenny Han
At night, they lie in bed holding hands. It is possible if she is stealthy enough that the wife can do this while secretly giving the husband the finger.
~ Jenny Offill
the children had been elaborately and painfully put to bed (there was homework to help with, night-lights to leave on, snacks to bring upstairs, as if they were being prepared for a frightening and arduous journey rather than the luxury of sleep).
~ Jessica Shattuck
The kids are asleep, and my husband is reading in the other room. So, it's just you and me. Every night after we put our children to bed, I come down here to the study to write. It's cold here in Los Angeles, so bedtimes have been creeping later. My daughter Maxwell is six now and my son Ace is five, and they have the kind of energy that
~ Jessica Simpson