MORNING QUOTES
quotations about morning
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- Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet,
- With charm of earliest birds.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
Morning is the fresh page of nature.
Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
J. R. R. TOLKIEN, The Hobbit
Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter; whether in public or private walks of life.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to George Washington Parke Custis, Jan. 7, 1798
- Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
- Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
- And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
- The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.
EDWARD FITZGERALD, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
DAWN! thou hast every possibility of life! What canst thou not reveal to man in thy flaming sky? Enough thou sayest, to recreate a world of men. Blind are we. How many of us read thy words aright? We pass them by, cold letters, divining not the fire of eternal life behind them burning. Dawn, thy opportunity is full! We, alas, know not the meaning of thy gorgeous page. Dazed we watch thy letters pale; cold embers, left upon the sky; Life's opportunity flickering into naught.
ELISE PUMPELLY CABOT, "Arizona"
The sky rejoices in the morning's birth.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Resolution and Independence
- Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say;
- Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?
EDWARD FITZGERALD, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Morning ... 'tis Nature's gayest hour!
SARAH JOSEPHA HALE, "Summer Morning"
There are few of us that are not rather ashamed of our sins and follies as we look out on the blessed morning sunlight, which comes to us like a bright-winged angel beckoning us to quit the old path of vanity that stretches its dreary length behind us.
GEORGE ELIOT, Mr. Gilfil's Love Story
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
A day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of darkness; a new creation of life and light spoken into being by the word of God.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
- When Dawn strides out to wake a dewy farm
- Across green fields and yellow hills of hay
- The little twittering birds laugh in his way
- And poise triumphant on his shining arm.
- He bears a sword of flame but not to harm
- The wakened life that feels his quickening sway
- And barnyard voices shrilling "It is day!"
- Take by his grace a new and alien charm.
- But in the city, like a wounded thing
- That limps to cover from the angry chase,
- He steals down streets where sickly arc-lights sing,
- And wanly mock his young and shameful face;
- And tiny gongs with cruel fervor ring
- In many a high and dreary sleeping place.
JOYCE KILMER, "Alarm Clocks"
- Daylight is nobody's friend.
- God comes in like a landlord
- and flashes on his brassy lamp.
ANNE SEXTON, "You All Know the Story of the Other Woman"
- Will't ne'er be morning? Will that promis'd light
- Ne'er break, and clear those clouds of night?
- Sweet Phosphor, bring the day,
- Whose conqu'ring ray
- May chase these fogs.
Early morning does not mince words.
JOHN GALSWORTHY, The Forsyte Saga
Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.
DANIEL HANDLER (as Lemony Snicket), The Blank Book
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, The Night of the Iguana
- Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous;
- gray light streaking each bare branch,
- each single twig, along one side,
- making another tree, of glassy veins.
ELIZABETH BISHOP, "Five Flights Up"
Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
JOHN GALSWORTHY, The Forsyte Saga
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