Dawn Quotes

A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world. (Oscar Wilde)
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Do not be quick to talk about three things: about God until you establish faith in Him, about another's sin until you remember your own and about tomorrow until you see the dawn. View quote
Nikolaj Velimirovic
They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon. View quote
Bobby Sands
War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war. View quote
Robert Aumann
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. View quote
Anne Lamott
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. View quote
John Steinbeck
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. View quote
H. G. Wells
[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. (Claude Debussy)
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety. View quote
René Daumal
There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, Waking in the dawn of the morning, In the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, Sleeping in the cold night's arms. View quote
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. View quote
John Ruskin
DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome. View quote
Joseph Addison
Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet, Crept like a frightened girl. View quote
Oscar Wilde
There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea. (Gary Snyder)
On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms. View quote
William Butler Yeats
The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work. View quote
Hesiod
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door. View quote
Emily Dickinson