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Quotes About Sunrise

Le porte d'entrata sono tutte orientate verso est. Al centro di ogni casa c'è il focolare, ogni mattina la luce del sole entra attraverso la porta che guarda a oriente e illumina il focolare, allora dicono che la dea del sole visita sua sorella, la dea del fuoco del focolare.
~ Gary Snyder
I'd come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for inspiration. I converted one of the bedrooms into my workspace and through its windows watched the wildlife appear each morning with the sunrise. Many were the days I would sit in wonder, coffee in hand, for hours.
~ David Mixner
Austin: "Well it is like salvation sort of. I mean the smell. I love the smell of toast. And the sun's coming up. It makes me feel like anything's possible. Y'know?
~ Sam Shepard
What a glorious morning is this!
~ Samuel Adams
When the sun riseth first, the beams over-gild the tops of green mountains that look toward the east, and the world cannot hinder the sun to rise: some are so near heaven, that the everlasting Sun hath begun to make an everlasting day of glory on them; the rays that come from his face that sits on the throne, so over-goldeth the soul, that there is no possibility of clouding peace, or of hindering daylight in the souls of such.
~ Samuel Rutherford
Walking out to hunt at sunrise be like stepping straight from your own dreams into birdsong and dew. Trees seem higher. Gray shy dawnlight fill their rushing crowns from underneath. Pasha stalk beside, my monster fabulous and tame, and be like fleeing every worry to a secret hush.
~ Sandra Newman
Suddenly Dawn in gold sandals
~ Sappho
Our dream of life will end as dreams do end, abruptly and completely, when the sun rises, when the light comes. And we will think, all that fear and all that grief were about nothing. But that cannon be true. I can't believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be a great part of the substance of human life.
~ Marilynne Robinson
On the East Coast, sunrise will steal the breath right out of your body.
~ Sibella Giorello
Daylight is the time God moves about the best. I've heard people say that they liked to watch the world come awake. But the world is always awake; sunlight just makes it seeable. In that moment when light hit the mountain, when the sun cracked through the sky big enough to make a noise if our ears could hear it, I would be aware again of all the things that had been going on throughout the night. Morning just made it easier to hear. Light takes away muteness. I
~ Silas House
The very name Impressionism is taken from an Atlantic Ocean painting - that of Monet, of sunrise in the harbor of Le Havre, done in 1872.
~ Simon Winchester
I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn.
~ Joanna Lumley
You won't find me dancing in a club at night but you will find me climbing mountains to see the sunrise, with a glimmer of hope and a smile on my face ~ this is life baby and freedom fills my days.
~ Nikki Rowe
It is time I came back to my real lifeAfter this voyage to an island with no name, Where I lay down at sunrise drunk with light.
~ May Sarton, Selected Poems
Getting bored pertains only to the stupid people in this planet of wonders! For the clever, even the simplest things of life - like sunrise or sunset - are a great source of entertainment!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
And the gilded car of day,His glowing axle doth allayIn the steep Atlantic stream.
~ John Milton
Morn,Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy handUnbarr'd the gates of light.
~ John Milton
The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls
~ John Muir
I've never been convinced that the sun would come up without me barking.
~ John R. Erickson
Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
~ John Ruskin
For me the diamond dawns are set In rings of beauty...
~ John Townsend Trowbridge
Then the stars went out, for the bark of Ra, in fiery splendor, burst out of the East. Sunshine flooded the wide desert and the long, green valley of the Nile. The night was over; a new day had dawned for the land of Egypt.
~ Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
~ Emily Dickinson
Of course, it's true that sometimes the pink at sunrise somehow seems brighter than the pink at sunset, and that when you're feeling down the the landscape seems darker too - you see things through the filter of your own sensibility. But the things themselves, out there, they don't change. They existed, and that's all there is to it.
~ Banana Yoshimoto