Time Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“It was five o’clock when the stupid rooster started crowing relentlessly, robbing me of my sleep. The sun hadn’t even risen yet. Dumbass bird…

— Alison Bliss

“I AWAKENED THAT MORNING to birdsong. It was only the little yellow bird who lives in the locust tree outside our bedroom window,”

— Thomas Tryon

“A bird sings in the morning, an owl hoots at night...it's still a bloody bird.”

— Oliver Reed

“Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night Writing Letters Pigeons shake their wings on the copper church roof out my window across the street, a…

— Allen Ginsberg

“...the great black bird broods outside my window in the high dark night waiting to enfold me when I leave the house tomorrow only…

— Jack Kerouac

“Irwin was difficult to wake; the poor man was totally wiped out. He collapsed in one of the soft office chairs the moment Smith…

— Holly Rutan

“He wakes up and he is not a halfhearted man and he can’t remember why he wakes this way, except that he hears the…

— Linda Hogan

“The early bird catches the worm & the sleeper catches nothing but dreams. Get up & get about your business. Good morning world, rise & grind.”

— LaNina King

“Mphhh... What did you say Tyler?' Anna-Louise mumbles on the bed above me. I stand up, and a tame blue bird lands on my…

— Douglas Coupland

“Bleary-eyed one morning, with caffeine still missing from my system, I fumbled my way along the dusty path to the guest tents, calling out…

— Peter Allison

“He falls asleep quickly. I lie awake and listen to lights being switched off all over the town. Whispered goodnights. The drowsy creak of…

— Jenny Downham