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Quotes About Dawn

It was dawn by the time the detective showed up; tired and weary. Tired because he'd been called from his bed before dawn, weary because he'd spent his life looking at the bad side of human nature and that wasn't going to change.
~ Alan Furst
At dawn one still October day in the long ago of the world, across the hill of Alderley, a farmer from Mobberley was riding to Macclesfield fair.
~ Alan Garner
Samira had been walking for hours. It was almost dawn—that strange time when it's still dark but the birds wake up and the forest comes to life with the scuttling of little animals. The air was sharp and cool, and dew glistened on the grass. Any minute now, the sun would peek up over the horizon, turning the blue-gray sky orange. And Samira would be too late. She was weary, but hope, fear, worry kept her moving.
~ Alan Gratz
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
~ Alan Paton
But when that dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
~ Alan Paton
Good afternoon, Detective. This is Dawn from Chief Ehrlich's office. Are you available to talk to the Chief?" "I'm great at multitasking, Dawn. I'm good to talk and piss him off at the same time.
~ Alan Russell
I rise near dawn, make a strong cup of coffee, wander to my desk and come fully awake by reading something written the day before.
~ Daniel Woodrell
And searched the wood for Jenny, too, as soon as dawn had broken blue
~ Rachel Plummer
Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
This leprous daybreak, dawn night's fangs have mangled – This is not that long-looked for break of day, Not that clear dawn in quest of which those comrades Set out, believing that in heaven's wide void Somewhere must be the stars' last halting-place, Somewhere the verge of night's slow-washing tide, Somewhere the anchorage for the ship of heartache.10
~ Ramachandra Guha
They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving.
~ Raymond Carver
She said we are all part of a secret club. Someday, she said, we will take over the earth. It will be people like us that save the world, she said: those who have walked the side of sorrow and seen the dawn.
~ Rene Denfeld
People who record birdsong generally do it very early--before six o'clock--if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud.
~ Richard Adams
If I've learned one lesson in all my days, it's this: Life starts new, every sunrise.
~ Richard Bach
The Wait It seemed like years before I picked a bouquet of kisses off her mouth and put them into a dawn-colored vase in my heart. But the wait was worth it. Because I was in love.
~ Richard Brautigan
Or you might set the morning star for it burns and burns and glitters in the winter dawn, and throws forth beam like those of metal consumed by oxygen. (Out of Doors in February)
~ Richard Jefferies
It's this time of year when Kit mist rise in the dark, as if we're a farmer or a fisherman, someone whose livelihood depends on beating the dawn, convincing himself that what looks like night is actually morning.
~ Julia Glass
With the rising of the sun we stirred, and woke, and readied ourselves to face the new day.
~ Juliet Marillier
Suddenly a sorrow the color of dawn welled up in him. They might as well lick each other's wounds. But they would lick forever, and the wounds would never heal, and in the end their tongues would be worn away.
~ K?b? Abe
Grea era aÅŸteptarea! Timpul p?rea strans în nesfarÅŸite cute adanci, ca niÅŸte foaie. Dac? nu se oprea la fiecare cut?, erau tot soiul de b?nuieli, fiecare cu arma ei. ÎÅ£i trebuia un efort teribil ca s? mergi înainte, f?candu-te c? nu le crezi ÅŸi dandu-le la o parte. În fine, dup? ce aÅŸteptase toat? noaptea, venir? zorile. DimineaÅ£a radea de el, lipindu-ÅŸi faÅ£a, ca burta unui melc, de geamul ferestrei.
~ K?b? Abe
Some must delve when the dawn is nigh; Some must toil when the noonday beams; But when might comes, and the soft winds sigh, Every man is a King of Dreams.
~ Clinton Scollard
Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.
~ Christina Stead
There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.
~ George Burns
In the twilight of the morning, all life silently waits for the sunrise. Sun must rise for the darkness to sink!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan