logo

Quotes About Days

It has been said that in human life there are moments worth ages... in the climate of England there are, for the lover of Nature, days which are worth whole months, — I might say — even years.
~ William Wordsworth
Every extraordinary occurrence unsettles the heads of hundreds of thousands of men for a few moments or hours or days.
~ Mark Twain, 1901
Thirty dayes hath November, April, June, and September, Twenty and eyght hath February alone, And all the rest thirty and one, But in the leape you must add one.
~ William Harrison, 1577
Aprill, June, and September, Thirty daies have as November; Ech month else doth never vary From thirty-one, save February; Wich twenty-eight doth still confine, Save on Leap-yeare, then twenty-nine.
~ Cambridge Almanac for 1635
Days twenty-eight in second month appear, And one day more is added each leap year: The fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth months run To thirty days, — the rest to thirty-one.
~ Society of Friends, 1800s
Thirty days has September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one, But February twenty-eight alone, Except in leap-year, once in four, When February has one day more.
~ Variant of the rhyme, c. 1840s
Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, All the rest have thirty one, Once short February's done.
~ Variant of the rhyme, c. 1970s
Thirty days has September, April, June, and November; When short February's done, All the rest have thirty-one.
~ Variant of the rhyme, c. 1970s
Bartlett tried to understand what Tyson was saying. October 15 was 196 days earlier.
~ Hampton Sides
Whatever has happened, there is always that magic winter haunting and hurting me with its marvelous echoes. The shortest days of the year, when nothing had begun and nothing had ended, all the roads of life were alive, and time beat round me like a heart.
~ Han Suyin
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the TV set.
~ Harriet Van Horne
Acquaintances give us moments; friends give us hours; good friends give us days.
~ Harry Beckwith
Damp tonnage and alluvial march of days…Tortured with history, its one will—flow!
~ Hart Crane
Art will wake you up. Art will break your heart. There will be glorious days. If you want eternity, you must be fearless.
~ Heather Rose
All these things are miracles. It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do.
~ Lemony Snicket
Afterwards they lie for a long time in silence. There is nothing. Their poem is scattered about them. The days have fallen everywhere, they have collapsed like cards. The air has a chill in it. He pulls the covers up. She is so perfectly still she seems asleep. He touches her face. It is wet with tears.
~ James Salter
Although she missed San Francisco at times, she didn't miss the chill that often crept in from the sea, shrouding even summer days with coastal fog.
~ Jan Moran
She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;—perfect, in being much too short.
~ Jane Austen
The string of bright beads, he had told her, were to remind her of the twenty brightest days they had spent together, and a promise of twenty more, and then twenty more, infinitely. Even in old age she would be able to call to mind the sound of the word infinitely, the music it made, coloured by the slight Irish accent in his mouth - a word that whether shouted, sung, or spoken, sounded always like a tender whisper.
~ Jane Urquhart
But, this time I have departed from my usual reticence because I know that there are some who, in their pleasant homes in America without any real knowledge of the facts, declare that the days of missionary hardships are over.
~ Janet Benge
Jeez, Dougie," I said, "I thought you were dead." "Naw, I just wished I was dead. My dad got transferred to Arkansas, so I went with them, but I'm telling you, Arkansas was no place for me. No action, you know what I mean? And if you want to go to the ocean it takes days." "Are
~ Janet Evanovich
I had dinner at your parents' house three days ago and once a week is my limit. Joe to Stephanie.
~ Janet Evanovich
Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.
~ Julie Walters
The first thing I control is the cost by not shooting for many days. It is not control, but somebody has to drive the whole thing. If I shoot unnecessary things, it will raise cost.
~ Shoojit Sircar