Quotes About Dawn

Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it's heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes.

Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn?

We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill.

It is time now for us to rise from sleep.

I've always like the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am.

Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

And it seemed to me that there were fires Flying till dawn without number And I never found out things-those Strange eyes of his-what colour? Everything trembling and singing and Were you my enemy or my friend, Winter was it or summer?

Four A.M. and the darkness had a quality of inexorability and menace as though it would never lift, as though, without anyone noticing it, the dawn of the day before had been the beginning of the last light ever in the history of the world.

All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.

When Tally glanced out at the glowing horizon, her eyes opened wide. She'd never seen dawn from outside the city before. Like most uglies, she was rarely up early enough, and in any case the horizon was always hidden behind the skyline of New Pretty Town. The sight of a real sunrise amazed her. A

You know I can't go out there. There's daylight outside. (Ravyn) Well, that's what happens when the big yellow ball comes up over the mountains. Amazing isn't it? (Susan)

You're a Dark-Hunter. He kissed her lightly on the lips. What I am is a man in love with a woman. I want you, Amanda. For the rest of my blessedly short mortal life. I want to wake at dawn with you in my arms and watch our children play and fight.

You didn't think I was going to kill you that easily, did you? For what you did to her, you are going to suffer every second between now and dawn. I'm going to give you pain the likes of which my mama's people were famed for. And when I finally end your life, you will thank me for it." – Sundown "Go to hell!" – Bart "You already send me there. It's your turn now. Give the devil my regards." – Sundown

O fresh-lit dawn! immortal life! O Earth's betrothal, sweet and true!

Lazarevo drips you into my soul, dawn drop by moonlight drop from the river Kama. When you look for me, look for me there, because that's where I'll be all the days of my life.

Jewel of life, guiding light, heralding a joyous new dawn.

Then the two friends leaned back and watched the sun rise clear of the trees. "Best time of day," said Will. Yes," Horace agreed. "What's for breakfast?

I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one.

careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist ...

at dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and the cat scratches at the door...

Here upon earth there is life, and then death, Dawn, and later nightfall, Fire, and the quenching of embers: But why should I not remember that my night is dawn in another part of the world, If the idea fits my fancy?

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost

This was the man God gave us when the hour Proclaimed the dawn of Liberty begun.

There is a budding morrow in midnight.