Before dawn, the air smelled of lemons.

Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.…

— Cesare Pavese

Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.

— Anne Carson

It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be…

— Rose Macaulay

In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary…

— John Edensor Littlewood

May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.

— Aeschylus

Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by…

— Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

“Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

When there's doom and gloom, don't forget there's darkness before dawn.

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

I just wanna stay weird till dawn

— Ozavzi Jason Trespect

After my final Breaking Dawn scene, I felt like I could shoot up into the night sky and every pore of my body would…

— Kristen Stewart

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a…

— Bob Feller

Don't you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God…

— Charles Spurgeon

In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman.…

— Merlin Stone

You've reached your 60th birthday, Bill To the year, the day, the hour You've been a lifelong country boy Along with Lily, your flower…

— John Walter Bratton

J. Budziszewski is perhaps the clearest and most eloquent natural lawyer writing today. When reading his works I often find myself amazed by his…

— Francis J. Beckwith