Noon Quotes - Page 2

• The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

  Wallace Stevens

  Morning, Kings, Thrones

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.73, Univ of California Press

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• I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

  Richard M. Nixon

  America, Office, President

  Address to the Nation Announcing Decision to Resign the Office of President, 8 Aug. 1974

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• A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

  Garrison Keillor

  Home, Able, Pot

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.83, Penguin

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• Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.

  Harper Lee

  Sweet, Naps, Sweat

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Infobase Publishing

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• For hevene myghte nat holden it, so was it hevy of hymself,Til it hadde of the erthe eten his fille.And whan it hadde of this fold flessh and blood taken,Was nevere leef upon lynde lighter therafter,And portatif and persaunt as the point of a nedle,That myghte noon armure it lette ne none heighe walles.Forthi is love ledere of the Lordes folk of hevene,And a meene, as the mair is, [inmiddes] the kyng and the commune.

  William Langland

  Taken, Blood, Holden

  William Langland (1856). “The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman”, p.24

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• It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.

  Daniel Defoe

  Men, Feet, One Day

  Daniel Defoe (1998). “Robinson Crusoe”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Love, Morning, Lying

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• Successful women don't sleep until noon.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Sleep, Successful, Successful Women

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• I figured if Allah had wanted us up that early, He wouldn't have invented noon.

  George Alec Effinger

  Wanted, Ifs

  George Alec Effinger (2014). “The Exile Kiss”, p.159, Open Road Media

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• Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.

  Euripides

  Looks, Height, Filth

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• On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like "another morn," "Risen on mid-noon;" and the sky on which you closed your eye was cloudless.

  Daniel Webster

  Eye, Light, Sky

  Daniel Webster (1848). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.61

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• ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light

  Sonia Delaunay

  Light, Poetry, Zenith

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• I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.

  Traci Bingham

  Beauty, Morning, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity

  Charles Ives

  Long, Confusion, Unity

  Charles Ives, Stephen Drury (2012). “Piano sonata no. 2: "Concord" : with the Essays before a sonata”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night.

  John Donne

  Love, Night, Light

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.137, Oxford University Press, USA

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• His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon!

  Emily Dickinson

  Experience, Tunes, Bees

  Emily Dickinson, “Like Trains Of Cars On Tracks Of Plush”

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• O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

  John Milton

  Hope, Dark, Science

  Samson Agonistes l. 80 (1671) See T. S. Eliot 104

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• I have to have my coffee. I probably have three cups a day, but only before noon.

  Tim Gunn

  Coffee, Three, Cups

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• When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold; When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West, Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is best!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Summer, Dream, Lying

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.466, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Moon, Light, Rose

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.286

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• I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

  Bob Edwards

  Home, Bed, Get Up

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• People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.

  Dale Carnegie

  Morning, People, Dinner

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.53, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther, Calvin, and John Knox had, and the same right to be guided by my own convictions, and would no doubt live a higher, happier life than if guided by theirs, it was like suddenly coming into the rays of the noon-day sun, after wandering with a rushlight in the caves the earth.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Thinking, Doubt, Atheism

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.

  Don DeLillo

  Night, Light, Crime

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Valparaiso”, p.68, Pan Macmillan

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