Night Quotes - Page 35

• Be strong to hope, O Heart!
  Though day is bright,
  The stars can only shine
  In the dark night.
  Be strong, O Heart of mine,
  Look towards the light!

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Strong, Stars, Heart

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.77

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• In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night

  Mark Spitz

  Summer, Sports, Morning

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• If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Soul, Would Be

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• Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen
  To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green,
  And sweet as Flora. Take no care
  For jewels for your gown or hair
  Fear not; the leaves will strew
  Gems in abundance upon you
  Besides, the childhood of the day has kept,
  Against you come, some orient pearls unwept.
  Come, and receive them while the light
  Hangs on the dew-locks of the night
  And Titan on the eastern hill
  Retires himself, or else stands still
  Till you come forth! Wash, dress, be brief in praying
  Few beads are best when once we go a-Maying.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Spring, Light

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your absence. Every crack trickles, every overhang drips. The screech of nighthawks has been replaced by the splash of rain. The rain falls from the height of streetlights. Each drop contains its own shattering blue bulb.

  Stuart Dybek

  Running, Rain, Fall

  Stuart Dybek (2004). “The Coast of Chicago: Stories”, p.86, Picador

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• Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Another Day, Aviation, Flight

  "Solar-powered plane lands safely after 26-hour flight". www.bbc.com. July 8, 2010.

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• I never had a bad night in my life, but I've had a few bad mornings.

  Lefty Gomez

  Morning, Bad Night

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• The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out of hearing of the nightingale's song.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Song, Italian, Journey

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• The secret art of inviting blessings.  The spiritual medicine of all diseases. Morning and night, join your hands in prayer and repeat these words out loud and in your heart for the improvement of body and mind.

  Mikao Usui

  Spiritual, Morning, Art

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• Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live

  Geraldo Rivera

  Literature, Hitting, Saturday

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• Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me. It's the sense I have that some of those points of light are the home stars of beings not so different from us, daily cares and all, who look across space with wonder, just as we do.

  Frank Drake

  Stars, Lying, Home

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• Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.

  George MacDonald

  Life, Work, Expectations

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.9045, e-artnow

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• In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.

  Bruno Schulz

  Father, Play, House

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• Moonless winter night-
  a billow of rising fog
  hides the distant pines

  Lenard Moore

  Winter, Fog, Rising

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• No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide and be at peace. The war comes through the air, bombs drop in the night. Quiet people go out in the morning, and see air-fleets passing overhead - dripping death - dripping death!

  H. G. Wells

  Daughter, Morning, Quiet People

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.2393, Delphi Classics

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• Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness?

  Amy Lowell

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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• Who can sleep on the night that God became man?

  Edith Stein

  Sleep, Men

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• One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Self Respect, Said, Accounts

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• Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

  Ally Condie

  Life, Way, Should

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.12, Penguin

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• I’m like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road. I’m here for two days in New York; I leave in the morning early. I come back for Anna Wintour’s party at the Met, then again at the end of May for a prize I get from the Gordon Parks Foundation.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Morning, New York, Party

  "Karl Lagerfeld, Rock Star" by Christopher, www.businessinsider.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Haven't you heard? I sleep every night in the deep freezer!

  Donatella Versace

  Sleep, Heard, Havens

  "Donatella Versace: 'How do I keep young? I sleep every night in the freezer!'" by Lisa Armstrong, fashion.telegraph.co.uk. June 29, 2012.

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• Your ancestors fought for you to have a share in that institution over there. It's yours. See the school board, and every Friday night hold your meetings there. Have your wives clean it up Saturday morning for the children to enter Monday. Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!

  Mother Jones

  Friday, Monday, Morning

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• There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything terribly right about it. It's unnecessary and derivative.

  James Berardinelli

  Men, Cable Tv, Way

  "The November Man (United States, 2014)". A movie review by James Berardinelli, www.reelviews.net. August 29, 2014.

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• Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night
  I can see paradise by the dashboard light.

  Jim Steinman

  Lonely, Dark, Light

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• The last night of love, the first night of war

  Camil Petrescu

  War, Lasts, Firsts

  "The Last Night of Love, The First Night of War". Book by Camil Petrescu, 1955.

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