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Quotes About Dawn

Five and twenty sturdy budges, bulks, files, clapperdogeons and maunders, counting the dells and doxies and other morts. Most are here, the rest are wandering eastward, along the winter lay. We follow at dawn.
~ Mark Twain
God forgive us, mother, we are hunting the wrong man! I have not slept any all night. I am now awaiting, at dawn
~ Mark Twain
It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.
~ Markus Zusak
and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.
~ Markus Zusak
It was a Sunday, an arsonist sunrise.
~ Markus Zusak
It feels like the mornings clap their hands. To make me wake.
~ Markus Zusak
People observe the colours of a day only at its beginnings and ends
~ Markus Zusak
And, too, there was that delightful freshness of mist and dewy grass that lingered like spirits at dawn. Marietta
~ Mary Alice Monroe
Certain things have to be, the sun has to rise.
~ Arthur Miller
À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes. (In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid Cities.)
~ Arthur Rimbaud
At least not until the Terror took hold of him. Not until he saw, night after night, a little boat being rowed across the river. Not until he saw it return at dawn. Not until he saw what his Untouchable son had touched. More than touched. Enter. Loved.
~ Arundhati Roy
There is a special charm to journeys undertaken before daybreak in hot lands: the air is soft and cool and the coming of dawn reveals a landscape fresh from the night dew.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.
~ Ayn Rand
When she told him the news he hugged her and hugged her and they danced around the palace making so much noise that Helios banged on the walls and grumbled that some people had to be up before dawn.
~ Stephen Fry
When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.
~ Stephen King
When dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.
~ Stephen King
The roadmap to a rich, rewarding life is to follow your passion, to be willing to deviate, to never dull to the dawn of a new day and all of the possibilities it holds for adventure and discovery.
~ Toni Sorenson
But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn
~ Kenji Miyazawa
This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
~ David Nicholls, One Day
Dear God, but it was too early for this.
~ Jojo Moyes
But here, as the dawn sneaks up on the last day of summer, and as a man with tired hands watches a young couple dance in the carpark of his restaurant, there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter and a slow walk home.
~ Jon McGregor
Sometime between four o'clock and dawn, Bernstein returned home with a hangover. At nine in the morning, he was awakened by a phone call from the Philharmonic's associate manager who told him, "Well, this is it. You have to conduct at three o'clock. No chance of a rehearsal. You will report at a quarter of three backstage.
~ Jonathan Cott
The seventeenth century was the dawn of an age of secularisation. The twenty-first century will be the start of an age of desecularisation.
~ Jonathan Sacks
Doubts, like ghosts, gain strength in darkness; even with the dawn I wasn't sure I'd done the right thing.
~ Jonathan Stroud