Dawn Quotes - page 20

At dawn, a railwaywoman On a country platform whirls on the end of a chain An irrelevant key, while a young guard makes to wipe A crumb from her lapel; and see, she smiles A permissory smile you take in from your corner seat: A cameo of unrehearsed perfection. (Alan Brownjohn)
Abhi, Babla and Sandeep slept like primeval creatures huddled on the island of the bed, close to the horizon, outwaiting the dawn that would bring the first thought to their heads. Their bodies slept with a pure detached love for every moment of sleep. View quote
Amit Chaudhuri
There are the men who say, "He preached tenderness and kindliness and filial love, yet He would not heed His mother and His brothers when they sought Him in the streets of Jerusalem." They do not know that His mother and brothers in their loving fear would have had Him return to the bench of the carpenter, whereas He was opening our eyes to the dawn of a new day. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
For each thorn, there's a rosebud... for each twilight a dawn... for each trial the strength to carry on, For each stormcloud a rainbow... for each shadow the sun... for each parting sweet memories when sorrow is done. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The new world is as yet behind the veil of destiny In my eyes, however its dawn has been unveiled. View quote
Muhammad Iqbal
And dawn, exalted like a host of doves - and then I've seen what men believe they've seen! View quote
Arthur Rimbaud
I behold the light of a dawn whose sunrise I shall never see. It only remains for me to sit down at the edge of my grave; then I shall descend boldly, crucifix in hand, into eternity. View quote
François-René de Chateaubriand
Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart. View quote
Edwin Markham
You say, 'Where goest Thou' I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss before me lies Dawn and the day the night behind me that Suffices me I break the bounds I see, And nothing more believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns. View quote
Victor Hugo
And through that Golgotha of blood and clay, Where watchers cursed the sick dawn, heavy-eyed, There (in my dream) Christ passed upon His way, Where His cross marks their nameless graves who died Slain for the world's salvation where all day For others' sake strong men are crucified. View quote
Eva Dobell
Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it's always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them. (Evan Thomas)
Since many propositions in the Great Conversation have not been arrived at by experiment ... or empirical verification, we often hear that the Conversation, though perhaps interesting to the antiquarian as setting forth the bizarre superstitions entertained by "thinkers" before the dawn of experimental science, can have no relevance to us now, when experimental science and its methods have at least revealed these superstitions for what they are. View quote
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead. View quote
Charles Dickens
Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last I did, thank Heaven! - and from its long, sad, wretched dream, to dawn. View quote
Charles Dickens
Dawn of the Dead is one of the most prophetic and disturbing films you'll see, and I challenge you to find anyone who can find another film from that era which provides the same level of social commentary. View quote
Olly Blackburn
And, oh! what beautiful years were these When our hearts clung each to each; When life was filled and our senses thrilled In the first faint dawn of speech. View quote
Langdon Smith
No argument or logic carries the same degree of conviction as insight, and it is the kind of conviction by which we know that dawn over the Alps on a perfect morning is beautiful. Argument cannot produce it and doubt cannot remove it. The outward beauty meets the inward recognition and in our hearts we know. View quote
Leslie Weatherhead
The wind that sighs before the dawn Chases the gloom of night, The curtains of the East are drawn, And suddenly-'t is light. View quote
Lewis Morris (poet)
At the dawn of religion, all the knowledge of a particular community fitted into a spiritual framework, based largely on religious values and ideas. View quote
Wolfgang Pauli
Nevertheless I long-I pine, all my days- to travel home and see the dawn of my return. View quote
Homer
There shall be a dawn or an afternoon or a noontime when some man in the fighting will take the life from me also either with a spearcast or an arrow flown from the bowstring. (Homer)
Fair, gentle friend, I've found so dear a home I wish that dawn might never come again; The loveliest lady ever born of woman Lies in my arms, and I care not a straw For jealous fool or dawn! View quote
Giraut de Bornelh
"Life – the break of dawn, the sound of a stream.Twilight.Dusk. Silent or loud, eloquent scream of joy or despair or just an ecstatic dream... View quote
Manav Gupta
I wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow was the Final Dawn, the last sunrise before the Earth and Sun are reshaped into computing elements. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Hail the mild morning, where the dawn began, The full fruition of the hopes of man. Where sage Experience seals the sacred cause, And that rare union, Liberty and Laws, Speaks to the reas'ning race "to freedom rise, Like them be equal, and like them be wise." View quote
Joel Barlow