Dawn Quotes - Page 22

• The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Children, Elderly, Tests

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• To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Mind, Prisoner, Knows

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• Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.

  Edward Abbey

  Stars, Flower, Sleep

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• The way we treat our children in the dawn of their lives and the way we treat our elderly in the twilight of their lives is a measure of the quality of a nation.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Children, Twilight, Elderly

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• We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don't see our own time for what it truly is - a new dawn for America.

  William J. Clinton

  Grateful, America, Achievement

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.71, Best Books on

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• Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their veins, she gives of her strength, sustaining them with her own measureless tremor of dark life. Touch the earth, love the earth, honor the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. For the gifts of life are the earth's and they are given to all, and they are the songs of birds at daybreak, Orion and the Bear, and dawn seen over ocean from the beach.

  Henry Beston

  Song, Beach, Ocean

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.38, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The [Elian] raid... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson...defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on a minority household.

  Rich Galen

  Government, Watches, Minorities

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• When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  God

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2013). “Don Quixote of La Mancha (Full Text)/ Introductory analysis and literary poem by Atidem Aroha.”, p.680, Alejandro's Libros

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• When you become quiet, it just dawns on you

  Thomas A. Edison

  Quiet

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• [B]y far the larger number of the dreams... occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a "second sleep." A condition of fasting, united, possibly, with some subtle magnetic or other atmospheric state, seems therefore to be that most open to impressions of the kind.

  Anna Kingsford

  Dream, Sleep, Numbers

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• Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.

  Anne Carson

  Lying, Night, Who I Am

  Anne Carson (1995). “Glass, Irony, and God”, p.34, New Directions Publishing

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• Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Death, Sunshine, Moments

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.106, Wildside Press LLC

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• God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.

  Robert Breault

  Hope, Might, Stills

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• I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one.

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

  Morning, Clouds, Two

  John Gardiner Calkins BRAINARD (1842). “The Poems of John G. C. Brainard. A New and Authentic Collection, with an Original Memoir of His Life. [With a Portrait.]”, p.19

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• If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

  A. J. Liebling

  Sleep, Two, Southern

  A. J. Liebling (2004). “Mollie and Other War Pieces”, p.47, U of Nebraska Press

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• The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

  Horace Walpole

  New York, Discovery, Boston

  Letter to Horace Mann, 24 Nov. 1774 See Macaulay 9

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• Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Running, Morning, Food

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Angel

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• Today, as chief Of the guardians of the seas Of the land of the dawn, I gaze up with awe At the rising sun!

  Isoroku Yamamoto

  Peace, Sea, Land

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• The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination -- aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Sleep, Light, Illumination

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• We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hope, Midnight, Threshold

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• There were two dawns that morning. One the orderly sunrise of God, followed by man's fireball at the base of that rocket.

  Gordon Baxter

  Morning, Men, Two

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• If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain of this: for all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean- 'spaceship.'

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Mean, Successful, Men

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• What started as a whisper
  Slowly turned into a scream
  Searching for an answer
  Where the question is unseen
  I don't know where you came from
  And I don't know where you've gone
  Old friends become old strangers
  Between the darkness and the dawn

  Ben Harper

  Old Friends, Darkness, Unseen

  Song: Amen Omen, Album: Diamonds on the Inside, 2003

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• Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.

  Van Morrison

  Memories, Twilight, Sadness

  Song: Memories, Album: Enlightenment

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