Midday Quotes
31 quotes by 29 authors
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When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see…
— Martin Luther
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The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, the smell of the wind itself cleansed by a…
— Chief Seattle
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In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray.
— Hesiod
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Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's…
— John Milton
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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning…
— Naguib Mahfouz
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I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of his friendship with…
— C. M. Mayo
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Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there's a hexagram…
— Frederick Lenz
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Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks…
— John Milton
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Interesting, he later reflected, was perhaps not the correct word.By the time he and Henry arrived back at the house for their midday meal-a scrumptious…
— Julia Quinn
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Today, we're taking a break from the concerns and the bustle of the work-a-day world. But we're also making a new beginning. As we gather…
— Ronald Reagan
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Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying…
— Lisa See
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It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish…
— Rudyard Kipling
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At twelve noon, The natives swoon And no further work is doneBut mad dogs and Englishmen, Go out in the midday sun.
— Noel Coward
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Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.
— Catherine McCormack
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The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you in the middle of the night,…
— Mickey Hart
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And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little ... The trade unions, under the European system, destroy liberty ...…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
— Rudyard Kipling
Who Wrote These Midday Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 31 Midday Quotes, led by these top contributors: