Dawn Quotes

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

Find, Before, Rest

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson

Mind, Evil, Body

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Life, Government, Children

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Henry David Thoreau

Keep, Learn, Ourselves

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau

Morning, Eyes, Sun

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore

Faith, Dark, Light

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
Jim Rohn

Path, Light, Themselves

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore

Death, Light, Lamp

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Victor Hugo

Snow, Together, Happen

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Lie, Down, Victory

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo

Age, Happy, Old

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Emily Dickinson

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
Bobby Sands

Freedom, Heart, Show

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
Victor Hugo

Night, Soul, Same

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
William Arthur Ward

Change, Sunshine, Friend

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace, Men, Justice

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
Emily Dickinson

Door, Knowing, Open

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Away, Left, Taken

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
Ambrose Bierce

Men, Reason, Bed

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
John Ruskin

Life, Sun, Beginning

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
John Steinbeck

Change, Men, Wind

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
Anne Lamott

Work, Hope, Give

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
James Russell Lowell

Truth, Death, Night

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. Wells

Past, Beginning, Twilight

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Night, Darker, Nearer

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love, Night, Nor

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
Emma Thompson

Work, Lie, Through

At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land.
Michelle Malkin

Democracy, Darkness, President

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Morning, Evening, Night

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.
Sam Ewing

Waiting, Decision, Down

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