Nightfall Quotes

38 quotes by 33 authors

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the people. Those great… — William O. Douglas
How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and love and strife… — W. E. B. Du Bois
If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over… — M. R. James
But housekeeping is fun. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work. You may work all day washing and… — Gladys Taber
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall… — Henry Mayhew
And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His day's work and his night's work are undone: And lo, between the nightfall and the light,… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day. — Robert Louis Stevenson
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to… — Alexis Carrel
How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the stars were visible… — Roger Ebert
Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where… — Ivan Turgenev
Now, after these things were done, the Pharaoh and his Queen drove through the hosts of Egypt in their golden chariot, and received the homage… — H. Rider Haggard
America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand… — Israel Shenker
The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should… — Edward Thomas
Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall. — Li Shangyin
Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening… — Theodore Roosevelt
After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver,… — Theodore Roosevelt
After nightfall, I wouldn't leave a burning building without an escort. — Harriet Van Horne
There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall… — William Carlos Williams
Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on… — Eudora Welty
No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts… — W G Sebald

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