Dew Quotes

• Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Rain, Clouds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “Hyperion, and Kavanagh”, p.163

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• Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Fall, Heart, Long

  Alexandre Dumas (1997). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.716, Wordsworth Editions

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• Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

  Socrates

  Men, Life Is Like, Leafs

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• The dew waits for no voice to call it to the sun.

  Joseph Parker

  Voice, Waiting, Sun

  Joseph Parker (1867). “Ecce Deus: Essays on the Life and Doctrine of Jesus Christ : with Controversial Notes on "Ecce Homo".”, p.100

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• Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

  Samuel Daniel

  Sweet, Morning, Cheer

  Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.6

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• It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.

  John Steinbeck

  Beautiful, Weed, Morning

  John Steinbeck (1997). “Tortilla Flat”, p.34, Penguin

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• Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.

  Ethel Waters

  Flower, Smell, Odor

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• Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Flower, Fall

  John Bunyan (1851). “Christian Behaviour: A Holy Life, the Beauty of Christianity, the Fear of God, and an Exhortation to Unity and Peace to which is Added a Caution Against Sin”, p.75

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• This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

  John Muir

  Life, Time, Nature

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And every dew-drop paints a bow.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Bows, Paint

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.135, Broadview Press

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• The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.

  Philip James Bailey

  Sweet, Stars, Joy

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.221

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• Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Culture, Warning

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• Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

  Wendell Berry

  Food, Cooking, Red Lipstick

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Farming: A Hand Book”, p.49, Counterpoint Press

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• In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.

  Khalil Gibran

  Friendship, Laughter, True Friend

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

  Bill Vaughan

  Loss, Sky, Tears

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• But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Life, Fall

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Moving, Wipe, World

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.17, tredition

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• The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

  George Eliot

  Sky, Earth, Beads

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.315

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• The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Morning, Business, Hair

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• Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Motivational, Dance

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.52, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• Dew depends not on Parliament.

  James Otis

  Parliament, Depends

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• Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!

  Walter Scott

  Death, Art, Rivers

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”, p.458

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• Pippa's Song The year's at the spring The day's at the morn Morning's at seven, The Hill side's dew-pearled The lark's on the wing The snail's on the thorn God's in his heaven- All's right with the world

  Robert Browning

  Song, Morning, Spring

  Pippa Passes pt. 1 (1841)

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• Till there is the Sun, shall not dew parish

  Aftab Alam

  Sun, Parish

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• What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?

  John Dryden

  Track, Tears, Young

  John Dryden (1904*). “John Dryden”

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