Dawn Quotations

Because we were orbiting the earth faster than earth spins on its axis, we went around the earth 16 times a day, an earth day, which meant 16 periods of lightness and 16 periods of darkness in 24 hours. Every so often you'd look towards the earth, and often you could see lightness and darkness together, and dawn and sunset were spectacular.

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

For a scientist, it is a unique experience to live through a period in which his field of endeavour comes to bloom - to be witness to those rare moments when the dawn of understanding finally descends upon what appeared to be confusion only a while ago - to listen to the sound of darkness crumbling.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.

In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

It has been recognized since the dawn of microbiology that the soil is inhabited by a living microscopic population which is responsible for the numerous reactions that take place in the soil and that affect the life and economy of man in many ways.

Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.

It would be really easy to write off the Dawn Wall as impossible. In terms of climbing technique, I'm learning a new language on this granite.

The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

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

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.

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

I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.

The Dawn Wall and the Fitz Traverse were super-satisfying climbs. But I will always be searching for the next thing - the need to accomplish and explore are just woven into the fabric of who I am.

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

Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers, public-health officials, and even the armed forces to vaccinate at will, and, if necessary, at gunpoint.

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.

From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.

Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

I'm about to play an emaciated pregnant vampire, so I've stopped using as much butter as Paula Deen - just until 'Breaking Dawn' is over.

When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk.

Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.

Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.

[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

Picture God nudging you and me awake before dawn because He can hardly wait to be with us.

What would dawn have been like, had you awakened? It would have sung through your bones. All I can do this morning is let it sing through mine.

I've always like the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am.

We're at a technological and cultural crossroads. It's possibly the dawn of a new paradigm in how films are released.

The real full force of this has begun to dawn on people. We're thinking realistically a lot of these children are going to be with us for three or four months.

My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.

...women, brave as stars at dawn

Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

The priests say the new dawn will be like the rain that fertilizes the soil before we begin to plant our corn. It will renew the natural cycle of life. The Mayan people will once again flourish. I believe in this very strongly. The holy men say we are entering a period of clarity. We are rediscovering our Mayan values.

As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.

Let the day dawn for you and others with thought of the Almighty, the Compassionate, and the Omnipresent self-knowing God. What greater service can you do to yourself and others? This will give you health and happiness.

So it's conceivable I'll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that's possible.

On Anzac Day, coffee and jokes with a Turk might be the most meaningful and fair dinkum dawn service you could possibly have.

She has a great way about her that makes everyone feel comfortable. She has gone about things the right way; she hasn't stepped on anybody's toes. She calls Dawn Staley 'Big D' and calls herself 'Little D.' She fits in perfectly.

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage-the union between one man and one woman-has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

Since the dawn of time actually since the early '80s the impacts to energy production for fish and wildlife constraints have always been calculated.

One Moment in Annihilation's Waste, / One Moment, of the Well of Life to taste - / The Stars are setting and the Caravan / Starts for the Dawn of Nothing - Oh, make haste!

One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that it was what I wanted to do. Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for.

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life,

The people of the Middle East are ready for the dawn of a new era, ... I believe it is our duty, leaders of all parties, to pave the way.

He's a very good mentor. I want to continue what we started in Tom's office in encouraging agricultural entrepreneurship and value-added agriculture issues such as energy. We're off to a great start with the ethanol industry. I think we're at the dawn of an exciting era in agriculture.

He's going to go home when the season ends and in a couple weeks it's suddenly going to dawn on him what he has accomplished. I told him before the season started that if he had 35, 40 goals, for a rookie that would be great. Look at him now, it's amazing.

He was the beginning of a new dawn of comedy. It wasn't cute and sweet. It was a little scary.

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

I think it was the second year of Relay that Dawn and her entire family got involved. And when Dawn got involved, she really got involved,

I think it's the dawn of an age of development at Fort Trumbull, which we've been waiting for quite some time. This signifies a very important step in the process in terms of breaking ground.

It is not an unreasonable issue for Mrs. Guinn to raise. It is also one that Dawn Gibbons should be willing to tell us how she is going to handle.

I will relinquish my office -- doing so with a heart filled with gratitude; gratitude to the American people for the chance to serve and to leave our country with more opportunity, stronger bonds of community and a more positive impact in the larger world, at the dawn of a new century and a whole new aspect of human affairs.

It is beginning to dawn on users that this is a matter of long-term ethical responsibility. We need to preserve our heritage and make sure that when the great things are done by various politicians, representatives and civil servants we will be able to, in 30 to 50 years, actually read the material.

Japan is still a dawn that we're awaiting.

It didn't dawn on me that we were older/elderly women. Later, of course, people felt we were doing so much to further the cause of mature women.

I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him.

You don't even have to wait until dawn the next morning to start flying to get a view of where the damage is, what areas have been hit hardest, what roads are still open, and how to get access to them.

We can say that after a long night, there's a new dawn now for the Western Balkans,

When as a swan he rises from the water he does not withdraw his one foot. If in truth he were to withdraw it, there would be neither to-day, nor to-morrow, no night and no day, never would the dawn appear.

We're coming to a point in time when we can deliver better quality images over the Internet. All of a sudden, this idea of disruption is spreading beyond phone providers. If you think of American Idol instead broadcasting over the Internet, a new dawn has come for the broadcast space. It's more of a point where the video becomes more functional to the way one works and lives.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

Red of the Dawn Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free?

Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.

I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

What we're talking about here is not just taking rich people to space. We're proving the safety and the viability of space travel. This is the dawn of an new era in space.

My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.

It is always darkest before the dawn.

No child should die in the dawn of life.

Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.

Your god must once have stood at a dawn of infinite possibilities, and this is what he's made of it. You tell me that I want God's love? I don't. Perhaps I want forgiveness, but there's no-one to ask it of. And there's no going back, there's no setting things right, there's only the hope of nothingness.

There are a lot of people. It's just a wall of green, and it doesn't dawn on them this is causing symptoms. The ragweed is here, but the counts are low.

We are seeing the early warnings of the dawn of international deflation, ... Gold prices are rising because it's a refuge.

There are always pretty tall challenges, and it looks like Dawn is prepared to take those on and beat them.

We've been dealing with new sources of information since the dawn of newsmagazines. And we've continued to innovate and adapt.

The 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.

There is still debris in the roads, and traffic signals are gone. Driving around is still dangerous. The dusk to dawn curfew will be enforced.

What I was always told was that it had to do with agriculture. It extends the day so you're not up at the crack of dawn at 4 a.m. trying to farm. That's what I always heard. I don't know if it's right or not.

We slept in Central Park, which is no mean feat- we got there and it was almost dawn when we went to sleep.