Best Noon Lines
242 Noon quotes by 206 unique authors
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You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and…
— Woodrow Wilson
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There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in…
— Frank McCourt
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...."the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a…
— Bruno Schulz
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The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.
— Libba Bray
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But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its…
— Khalil Gibran
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Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine…
— Harper Lee
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
— Raymond Chandler
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That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons…
— Ray Bradbury
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They threw me off the haytruck about noon.
— James M. Cain
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morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain…
— Charles Bukowski
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Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see…
— Homer
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He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Transience is the force of time that makes a ghost of every experience. There was never a dawn, regardless how beautiful or promising, that did…
— John O'Donohue
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I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas…
— Emily Dickinson
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I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blue moods threaten to…
— David Levithan
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The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.
— Neal Stephenson
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Heart may still be the fire in hearth but I'm suddenly too cold to continue, and besides, there's no hearth here anyway and it's the…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and…
— Margaret Atwood
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Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if…
— Michael Ondaatje
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Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon; Not the poet,…
— Robert Burns
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Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future
— Sri Aurobindo
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Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time…
— Robert Bly
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(His) sadness grew; it became a rock inside him, pulling him down. He carried the sadness everywhere, morning, noon, and night. It hurt to breathe.
— Kevin Henkes
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