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Quotes About Days

In our early days she went with me to the eugenics meetings, but that period soon ended.
~ Christina Stead
He had a plan—and a bus pass with four more days left on it—so this son of a bitch had picked the wrong guy to fuck with.
~ Christopher Moore
We'd been adrift for eight days when the ninny tried to eat the monkey.
~ Christopher Moore
Ingrates! says the garment, I protected you in inclement weather. Why will you have nothing to do with me? I have just come from the deep sea, says the fish. I have been a rose, says the perfume. I have loved you, says the corpse. I have civilized you, says the convent. To this there is but one reply: In former days.
~ Victor Hugo
O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days!
~ lamartine alphonse de ii
The horses have all been found. No harm was done." "It took us two days to gather them! On foot! I will never hear the last of it!
~ Catherine Anderson
Humans do not proceed in an orderly fashion from one scene to the next. Memory lies underneath happenstance; hope and dread sprawl on top. Our days and nights are their endless orgies.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I will tell you how we made soup in those days: Hold a ration card over a pot of boiling water for thirty minutes, so that the shadow of the card falls on the broth. Then eat it up, and don't you dare spill a drop.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Men grieve [Mephistopheles] so with the days of their lamenting, [he] even hate[s] to plague them with [his] torments.
~ Goethe
The days may not be so bright and balmy—yet the quiet and melancholy that linger around them is fraught with glory. Over everything connected with autumn there lingers some golden spell—some unseen influence that penetrates the soul with its mysterious power.
~ Northern Advocate
shorter days seem a little ominous shadows are becoming autumn'ish
~ Terri Guillemets
...Lost in your heart, lost in your eyes Lost every day, no map to follow Entire days, weeks, a blur Flickers of light, in the darkness, Only to be enveloped in shadows once more...
~ Peter Winstanley
She fastened her attention on the taxi window as they drove crosstown. It was one of those last wonderful days in October, when the air is balmy and the faded sun tries to pretend it's spring.
~ Jacqueline Susann
I think the idea of simply enduring to the end is a terrible philosophy and an awful way to live one's life. How you spend your days is how you live your life, and if you're spending them enduring anything then you're doing it wrong.
~ James A. Owen
Of course, I must say that I don't think America is God's gift to anybody--if it is, God's days have got to be numbered. That God these people say they serve--and do serve, in ways that they don't know--has got a very nasty sense of humor. Like you'd beat the shit out of Him, if He was a man. Or: if you were.
~ James Baldwin
In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.
~ James Baldwin
Of course, I must say that I don't think America is God's gift to anybody—if it is, God's days have got to be numbered. That God these people say they serve—and do serve, in ways that they don't know—has got a very nasty sense of humor. Like you'd beat the shit out of Him, if He was a man. Or: if you were.
~ James Baldwin
America is God's gift to anybody—if it is, God's days have got to be numbered. That God these people say they serve—and do serve, in ways that they don't know—has got a very nasty sense of humor. Like you'd beat the shit out of Him, if He was a man. Or: if you were.
~ James Baldwin
1954. Smog prevents airplanes from landing and ships from docking for three days.
~ James Frey
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights.
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
The sky has a huge heart open for all clouds even on the gloomiest of days.
~ Munia Khan
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
~ Robert Hall
In today's world, new infections and diseases can spread across the country and even across the world in a matter of days, or even hours, making early detection critical.
~ John Linder
They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.
~ Henry David Thoreau