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Quotes About Sunrise

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.
~ Ntozake Shange
Learn to associate ideas worthy of God with all that happens in Nature—the sunrises and the sunsets, the sun and the stars, the changing seasons, and your imagination will never be at the mercy of your impulses, but will always be at the service of God.
~ Oswald Chambers
If we are children of God, we have a tremendous treasure in nature and will realize that it is holy and sacred. We will see God reaching out to us in every wind that blows, every sunrise and sunset, every cloud in the sky, every flower that blooms, and every leaf that fades, if we will only begin to use our starved imagination to visualize it.
~ Oswald Chambers
On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
~ Patricia Cornwell
Most visitors, however, will need a car to watch the sunrise from Cadillac Mountain, a park tradition. At 1,530 feet the highest peak on the U.S. Atlantic coast, this is the spot where America catches its first rays of the morning sun.
~ Unknown
I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.
~ Patrick Duffy
There is nothing better than to be headed into the mountains on a clean fresh day with the sun rising through the trees and good company and good talk and the sense of ease that comes from the knowledge that you are in somebody else's car and it is not your transmission that is going to get torn out on a big rock.
~ Unknown
He opens his voice, showing me other sunrises he has seen, where the fields turn golden and the Source and his one in particular stood up from their early morning labours to watch it rise, a memory as simple as that, yet covered in joy and loss and love and grief- And hope.
~ Patrick Ness
The sun had awakened with a grudge against the world and no one was sorry to see it go.
~ Unknown
I stood back of the new garden watching the sun touch the mountains and ruddle the turned dirt and the threads of water and I can say there was something moving inside that resembled a kind of happiness. I would never have named it. Not then. For fear. But I name it now.
~ Peter Heller
And by the time the sun had risen over the land, Lot had reached Zoar.
~ Genesis 19:23
The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits wide.
~ Exodus 27:13
And the east side, toward the sunrise, was also fifty cubits long.
~ Exodus 38:13
On the east side, toward the sunrise, the divisions of Judah are to camp under their standard: The leader of the descendants of Judah is Nahshon son of Amminadab,
~ Numbers 2:3
These two and a half tribes have received their inheritance across the Jordan from Jericho, toward the sunrise.”
~ Numbers 34:15
A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.
~ Psalm 50:1
From where the sun rises to where it sets, the name of the LORD is praised.
~ Psalm 113:3