Noonday Quotes

#1. The noonday quiet holds the hill.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#2. I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.

Davy Crockett

#3. But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat,
The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat,
To closer shades the panting flocks remove;
Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?

Alexander Pope

#4. If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday (Isa. 58:10, italics added).

Steve Corbett

#5. One grateful thought is a ray of sunshine. A hundred such thoughts paint a sunrise. A thousand will rival the glaring sky at noonday - for gratitude is light against the darkness.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.

Philip Sidney

#7. The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.

Stefan Kanfer

#8. Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.

Isabel Allende

#9. I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#10. Shake those stars from your hair, pretty Moonchild. It's time to dance with the noonday sun!

Jaeda DeWalt

#11. The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

Charlotte Bronte

#12. Some must delve when the dawn is nigh;
Some must toil when the noonday beams;
But when might comes, and the soft winds sigh,
Every man is a King of Dreams.

Clinton Scollard

#13. And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

Anonymous

#14. Who when examining in the cabinet of the entomologist the gay and exotic butterflies, and singular cicadas, will associate with these lifeless objects, the ceaseless harsh music of the latter, and the lazy flight of the former - the sure accompaniments of the still, glowing noonday of the tropics.

Charles Darwin

#15. Now a soldier's spirit is keenest in the morning; by noonday it has begun to flag; and in the evening, his mind is only on returning to camp.

Sun Tzu

#16. I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#17. All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?

Bertrand Russell

#18. Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive
To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down
You had not seen take amber light alive.

Allen Tate

#19. Do you not remember me?" whispered the Dream. "We had long talks together. The morning and the noonday pass. The evening still is ours. The twilight also brings its promise.

Jerome K. Jerome

#20. Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.

Daniel Goleman

#21. If you don't find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you're teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.

T.D. Jakes

#22. A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.

Hazrat Ali

#23. To understand what makes you future strong, and what being strong means, is to understand how and why you make choices.

Bill Jensen

#24. Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Thomas Tusser

#25. My love of literature goes back to my childhood.

Jerry Hall

#26. I'm not allowed to see R-rated movies, but I did see 'Kick-Ass' because I'm in it. I'm not going to skip out on my own premiere!

Chloe Grace Moretz

#27. Life consists of many different stories. A person has not just one but countless life stories that weave in between each other and together create exactly that specific life and that specific human being.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#28. I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#29. If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.

Donna Brazile

#30. Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines.

Benjamin Franklin

#31. Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel ... not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, What do I really feel about this?

Robert Penn Warren