Quotes About Dawn

we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning.

Well, I had been a night janitor once before in San Francisco. You smuggled a bottle of wine in with you, worked like hell, and then when everybody else had gone, you sat looking out at the windows, drinking wine and waiting for the dawn.

At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring.

The time a man wakes up is his morning.

Soroi n'ti Mee, Love of my life... Soroe n'ti Mau, Friend of my heart... z'Mee kumin Tau, Join me in life... be nor ret n'Kahn, tizmar sae? Please stay, beyond the cruel dawn?

I'm not really a morning person.

I'm not an early morning person.

I wish I was a morning person.

I'm not too much of a morning person.

I'm a morning person.

I am not a morning person at all.

I'm horrible in the mornings. I'm grumpy.

I don't find the early mornings difficult.

The moonlight fell upon the earth like a magic unearthly dawn. It wiped away all rawness, it hid all sores. It gave all common and familiar things--the sagging drift of the barn, the raw shed of the creamery, the rich curve of the lawyer's crabapple trees--a uniform bloom of wonder.

to one whose elastic and vigorous thoughts keep pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not the labors and attitudes of men, morning is when I am awake and there is dawn in me.

And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when you know you must cross the river and march into the mountains and do things you are afraid to do. It's about love and memory. It's about sorrow. It's about sisters who never write back and people who never listen.

Whatever it was went through me like a rifle rag. Come dawn, me date was so hot you could have lit a sparkplug off of it.

La nuit tombe, le jour se lève. Toujours.

THE FIRST DAY

You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.

Write at the edges of the day.

One taught her the alphabet; another a stitch. All taught her how it felt to wake up at dawn and decide what to do with the day.

Not now. On this night so divine, Mariah did no pleading. The only thing on her heart was gratitude. But she did have one request. She wanted to stay awake, wanted to see what freedom looked like, felt like at midnight, then at the cusp of dawn.

Since that day I worried I'd been wandering the night. But I had forgotten that this is a world, upon which the sun does rise.