Sunrise Quotes - Page 14

• After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?

  Robert Breault

  Positivity, Years, Optimism

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• Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in the fire and it hurt,"), which is probably the earliest kind we learn. Then there's the logically convincing, which we probably come to first through maths, in the context of Pythagoras's theorem or something similar, and which, if we first encounter it at exactly the right moment, bursts on our minds like sunrise with the whole universe playing a great chord of C Major.

  Philip Pullman

  Hurt, Math, Science

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• The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry to gladden our heart, who can view a sunrise with a sense of majesty and awe.

  Rollo May

  Heart, Views, Together

  Rollo May (2015). “The Discovery of Being”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.

  Eric Schmidt

  Karma, Bed, Dawn

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• That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Drinking, Men, Rivers

  Gustave Flaubert (1954). “The Selected Letters”

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• Learn to love the sunrise and sunset, the beating of rain on the roof and windows, and the gentle fall of snow on a winter day.

  Lowell L. Bennion

  Rain, Fall, Sunset

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• I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.

  Ava Gardner

  Hollywood, Actresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can't tell you how many times in the '90s I'd meet somebody, we'd be having a nice time, and they'd sigh and go, 'This is exactly like Before Sunrise.' And I'd have to get up and leave.

  Ethan Hawke

  Nice, Get Up, Sigh

  "Ethan Hawke: What I've Learned About Life...and Marriage". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. August 16, 2013.

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• We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters, kissed too many girls to be deceivers, saw too many sunrises not to be believers, broke too many strings to be pro's and gave too much love to be concerned where it goes.

  Glen Hansard

  Girl, Cynical, Joy

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• No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Sky, Paint

  "Thief Of Time". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2001.

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• You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.

  Max Lucado

  Fear, Lasts, Finals

  Max Lucado (2012). “Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The Dawn is a wild, fair woman, With sunrise in her hair; Look where she stands, with pleading hands, To lure me there.

  Robert Loveman

  Morning, Hair, Hands

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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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• The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Morning, Yield, Doe

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• An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on the lawn; A print of a vermilion foot; A purple finger on the slope; A flippant fly upon the pane; A spider at his trade again; An added strut in chanticleer; A flower expected everywhere.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Flower, Twilight

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.114, Wordsworth Editions

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• Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong?

  Emily Dickinson

  Morning, Angel, Flying

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.54, Harvard University Press

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• The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the few whose unfortunate pursuits of pleasure, or scarcely less unfortunate pursuits of business, cause them to be well acquainted with the scene. There is an air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely-shut buildings, which throughout the day are swarming with life and bustle, that is very impressive.

  Charles Dickens

  Summer, Morning, Air

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Sketches by Boz: Pseud. Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People”, p.55

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• Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.

  James Russell Lowell

  Reading, Grass, Chaucer

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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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• Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.

  Thomas Watson

  Sunset, Godly, Night

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• A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of the milky way

  Carl Sagan

  Morning, Dawn, Rising

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• Desire, when it stems from the heart and spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy. This energy is released into the ether each night, as the mind falls into the sleep state. Each morning it returns to the conscious state reinforced with the cosmic currents. That which has been imaged will surely and certainly be manifested. You can rely, young man, upon this ageless promise as surely as you can rely upon the eternally unbroken promise of sunrise... and of Spring.

  Abdul Kalam

  Morning, Spring, Fall

  "Wings of Fire: An Autobiography".

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• I often joke with my audiences that I make most of my income on a ski pole. People smile but they get my point. You need to make time for your genius to flow. We get our creative bursts, those idea torrents that take our business and personal lives to the next level, while we are skiing or drinking coffee in a Starbucks or walking in the woods or meditation with a sunrise. Those pursuits are not a waste of time. Creativity comes when you are relaxed, happy and enjoying the moment. And when it comes, it brings ideas that rock your world.

  Robin Sharma

  Drinking, Coffee, Creativity

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• Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down.  The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the sky glows to a deeper blue, to pale violet, to purple, then thins to grey.  Slowly the wind falls, and the still air begins to freeze.  The solid eastern ridge is black; it has a bloom on it like the dust on the skin of a grape.  The west flares briefly.  The long, cold amber of the afterglow casts clear black lunar shadows.  There is an animal mystery in the light that sets upon the fields like a frozen muscle that will flex and wake at sunrise.

  J. A. Baker

  Fall, Eye, Animal

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• The birth of Jesus is the sunrise in the Bible.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Jesus, Birth, Jesus Birth

  Henry Van Dyke (1993). “A Treasury of Christmas Stories”, Harold Shaw Pub

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