Quotes About The Evening

#1. By welcoming a marginalized person whose body is wounded and by welcoming the sinner whose soul is wounded, we put our credibility as Christians on the line. Let us always remember the words of Saint John of the Cross: In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

Pope Francis

#2. Everyone needs to have a denim shirt in your wardrobe. They work in the evening with a blazer or over your shoulder. They're great to pair with a pair of shorts - roll up the sleeves, unbutton it to show a peekaboo of your tank top.

Brad Goreski

#3. Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

Sebastian Faulks

#4. Silence is the nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the nest in the evening. Similarly, in the spiritual world, divine music comes from the inmost soul of Silence.

Sri Chinmoy

#5. I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894 ... A Polish physicist whom I knew, and who was a great admirer of Pierre Curie, one day invited us together to spend the evening with himself and his wife.

Marie Curie

#6. One night, Tess finds me sobbing during the health segment of the evening news. Scientists have discovered scarred cells from cardiac arrest fall away over time, and she can't understand how sadly hopeful that is. To me, it means that the human heart has the capacity to heal itself.

Koren Zailckas

#7. In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures.

Stieg Larsson

#8. In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.

Beatrix Potter

#10. The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.

Demosthenes

#11. The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.

Kin Hubbard

#12. You're not supposed to look perfect while you're making babies. Making babies is the perfection. It's about feeling good in clothes and knowing you can get dressed up in the evening, work it for a minute, and maybe get back in a certain pair of jeans. But there's just no such thing as perfection.

Drew Barrymore

#13. Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca ...

Daniel Handler

#14. May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice. PSALM 141:2

Anne Graham Lotz

#15. Julius," she starts, "it's not about being a bad guy." Her voice is soft. "I can make any good guy bad for the evening." This

Belle Aurora

#16. The evening breeze floated through the open window over my desk, waltzing the curtain from side to side.

Ruta Sepetys

#17. Her returned in the evening, drier, sharper, a man with a closer kinship with a thorn bush.

Jose Eduardo Agualusa

#18. Can't you see me as king of the Hereford ranchers, Lucy?"
"Oh, I can see you, all right ... I can see you riding out on your beautiful palomino checking the herd ... There you sit, silhouetted against the evening sky ... Sucking your thumb and holding that stupid blanket!

Charles M. Schulz

#19. SONG. . . . BY TOAD. (Composed by himself.) OTHER COMPOSITIONS. BY TOAD will be sung in the course of the evening by the. . . COMPOSER.

Kenneth Grahame

#20. After supper they saw Kaluka to the boardwalk, and then strolled back along the beach to Asbury. The evening sea was a new sensation, for all its color and mellow age was gone, and it seemed the bleak waste that made the Norse sagas sad.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#21. When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening ... I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.

Kathleen Norris

#22. The orange sun is rolling across the sky like a severed head, gentle light glimmers in the ravines among the clouds, the banners of the sunset are fluttering above our heads. The stench of yesterday's blood and slaughtered horses drips into the evening chill.

Isaac Babel

#23. Without Puccini, there is no opera; without opera, the world is an even drearier place than the evening news would have us think.

William Berger

#24. God is most great! Allahu akbar! God is most great!" and sending the most faithful grimly shuffling through the dusky, unlit streets to salat al-'isha, the evening prayer. The Sabbath

Brian Catlos

#25. One by one, the electric lights ringing the lawn were ignited. Each one, as it burst into brilliance, erased a constellation from the evening sky.

Tim Westover

#26. I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

James Cameron

#27. When I was young, men like my father would often come home and put on their smoking jacket over their perfectly ordinary trousers, as a way of relaxing in the evening.

Julian Fellowes

#28. I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.

Alber Elbaz

#29. Yet as the evening of Sunday came on, a sadness as of death would overtake me, for at nine o'clock I had to return to school, where everything was cold and strange and severe - where the governesses, on Mondays, lost their tempers, and nipped my ears, and made me cry.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#30. In the evening, I would tell my patients, sleep with the angels. In the morning, I would say to each as the French farmers still do, "Good morning to your and your companion" - meaning, of course, their angel.

Eileen Elias Freeman

#31. In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths.

Mary Antin

#32. Buenos Aires is less than an hour's drive from the ranch, and in the evening, we might meet friends for dinner there. I get recognised a bit, but I'm lucky that polo isn't as popular as other sports.

Facundo Pieres

#33. Judges are men who in the cool of the evening undo work that better men do in the heat of the day.

Helen Garner

#34. I don't feel pressure ... I don't give a toss about it. I spent the afternoon of Sunday, 9 July, 2006 in Berlin sleeping and playing the PlayStation. In the evening, I went out and won the World Cup.

Andrea Pirlo

#35. I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue.

Elton John

#36. In the morning, prayer is the key that opens to us
the treasures of God's mercies and blessings; in the evening, it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard.

Billy Graham

#37. She had offered to drive, not least because it would have given her some control over the evening, but Gethin had raised an eyebrow and told her he liked a more comfortable ride. She assumed it was a reference to her van rather than some frank over-sharing.

Christine Stovell

#38. Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous ...

Claude Monet

#39. I would spend my life on the road logging hundreds of thousands of miles and my story was always the same. . . man comes to town, detonates; man leaves town and drives off into the evening; fade to black. Just the way I like it.

Bruce Springsteen

#40. The good citizen when he opens his door in the evening must be banker, golfer, husband, father; not a nomad wandering the desert, a mystic staring at the sky, a debauchee in the slums of San Francisco, a soldier heading a revolution, a pariah howling with skepticism and solitude.

Virginia Woolf

#41. I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

Benjamin Disraeli

#42. I don't have to watch the evening news to see that the world is bad, I only have to look at myself.

Donald Miller

#43. It couldn't last of course. They both knew it. Not the evening, Not the holiday.

Elizabeth Noble

#44. Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in the evening nesting in a tree.

Andrew Motion

#45. I knew what Charley would do. He would spend the evening drinking himself into the mindset of a cinder block. If they had given him as much as a hundred bucks, it would be a long night.

Dan Ahearn

#46. Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Jean Paul

#47. I can't take it y'all
I can feel the city breathin
Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening
Sigh before we die like the last train leaving

Mos Def

#48. The fog lifted in the evening and a blue-black band at the horizon marked the end of the sea and the beginning of thought. Where does a beginning begin when nothing has gone on before?

Gretel Ehrlich

#49. As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was different, and how the birds chanted different songs in the evening and the morning.

Ishmael Beah

#50. I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.

Kurt Vonnegut

#51. Give us Direction; the best of goodwill; Put us in touch with fair winds. Sing to us softly, hum the evening's song. Tell us what the blacksmith has done for you.

Jethro Tull

#52. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

Beverly Cleary

#53. I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy; but having leave, as a high treat, to sit up until my mother came home from spending the evening at a neighbour's, I would rather have died upon my post (of course) than have gone to bed. I

Charles Dickens

#54. In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.

Leon Askin

#55. I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no previous plans, we decide what to do for the evening.

Chaim Potok

#56. The wood was silent, still and secret in the evening drizzle of rain, full of the mystery of eggs and half-open buds, half unsheathed flowers. In the dimness of it all trees glistened naked and dark as if they had unclothed themselves, and the green things on earth seemed to hum with greenness.

D.H. Lawrence

#57. For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news
as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home

Tahir Shah

#58. Because of the shape of my eyes, I can wear a lot of make-up. I can do a smoky look in the evening, but in the day I wear a lot less. Most women don't deal with lip pencils - they have been given a bad name, but are essential, especially as we get older.

Lulu

#59. And we spend the rest of the evening getting very pissed and eating ice cream, as we always do when something good or bad happens to either one of us.

Sophie Kinsella

#60. Inside, I'm assaulted by the evening propaganda broadcasts coming over the apartment's hardwired loudspeaker. There's one in every apartment and factory floor in Pyongyang

Adam Johnson

#61. The planet Venus, a circle of silver in a green sky, pierced the edge of the evening while the wintry woods darkened about me and in the stillness the regular sound of my footsteps striking the pavement was like a the rhythmic beating of a giant stone heart.

Gore Vidal

#62. I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only eat in the evening.

Amelie Nothomb

#63. We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the evening of the 25th. They would not, however, come to us; but fled into the interior in great apparent alarm.

Charles Sturt

#64. He could hide from ugliness - in the evening.

John Steinbeck

#65. On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner.

Ridley Scott

#66. Once upon a time, this moment - this last light of the evening the day before the race - was the best moment of the year for me. The anticipation of the game to come. But that was when all I had to lose was my life.

Maggie Stiefvater

#67. It was very exciting to see Alan Sugar, so I think I've peaked with excitement for the evening, because I'm a massive Apprentice fan.

David Walliams

#68. Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.

Aime Cesaire

#69. she opens her bedroom window and listens to the evening as it settles over the balconies and chimneys, languid and peaceful

Anthony Doerr

#70. The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.

Queen Victoria

#71. He walked there, reading in the evening and heard the cries of the boys' lines at their play, young cries in the quiet evening. He was their rector: his reign was mild.

James Joyce

#72. Leave them be. It's about time the two of them worked things out, don't you think?"

"Long past time, but you know TJ. I was hoping to make it through the evening without having to call in the swat team.

Mackenzie Crowne

#73. I'm not very good with drink recipes. If I'm entertaining, I like to come up with a house drink for the evening, one thing I'll make for the whole evening of the whole month.

Amy Sedaris

#74. I want to grow old with you," he whispers. "I want to let you win at bingo, I want you to help me find my dentures, and I want to spend the evening watching the sunset with you every night from our two rocking chairs."


-Jackson 'Blame It on the Pain

Ashley Jade

#75. Even if our entire audiovisual legacy were to be lost in a power cut, we would still be able to read books in the light from the sun, or in the evening by a candlelight.

Jean-Claude Carriere

#76. If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.

Deion Sanders

#77. Even after the ringing stopped, the sound of the bell lingered through the evening gloom like the dust floating in the air.

Haruki Murakami

#78. For that I must descend into the depths, as you do in the evening when you go below the sea and bring light also to the underworld, you superabundant star!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#79. That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

Satish Kumar

#80. He sent it flying at full speed. It jumped six times as well, sending ripples across the sea. The small splashes of foam turned into miniature rainbows as they caught the light of the evening sun setting behind the clouds.

Erica Sehyun Song

#81. father loved to watch old westerns and the evening news,

Nicholas Sparks

#82. Temptation is a slower process and you'll feel it more in the morning just after waking and in the evening, when you are at loose ends, tired, and yet not ready to fall asleep.

Louise Erdrich

#83. The evening stretches out against the sky, I thought. Like a patient etherized upon a table. I grinned to myself. Live fast, die young, and have a literate corpse.

Robert B. Parker

#84. When I was 14, I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.

Helen McCrory

#85. Every flower seems to burn by itself, softly, purely in the misty beds; and how she loved the grey-white moths spinning in and out, over the cherry pie, over the evening primroses!

Virginia Woolf

#86. My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

Marvin Hamlisch

#87. We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

George Steiner

#88. WHAT IN THE WORLD, Wimsey, are you doing in this Morgue? demanded Captain Fentiman, flinging aside the Evening Banner with the air of a man released from an irksome duty.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#89. Imagine what it would be like if you didn't know that the evening news was funded primarily by 'Big Pharma.' You would actually believe the stuff that they're saying. You might even think those are the stories that matter.

Douglas Rushkoff

#90. From that woman on the beach, dusk pours out across the evening waves. ISSA

Richard Flanagan

#91. Thou fair-haired angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed. Smile on our loves. ...

Edward Abbey

#92. The evening laid its cool palm against his weary brow as if feeling for a temperature.

Michael Chabon

#93. In the pale light of the half moon, she sees him
opening the door, moving toward her
as if awake. He sits at the edge of the bed, tenderly stroking
her hair, inhaling deeply the heavy scent of
wet violets, the evening breeze along her arms

Adele Ne Jame

#94. the fact that he'd never before seen her in the evening. He was just short of being astounded that she could exist at this hour. He must have been the type who thought that beauty gets put in a box at night. But it couldn't be true, no, because there she was, facing him.

David Foenkinos

#95. My breath returned as I observed my escort. He was wearing the same black coat and trousers from the evening of Sir Winston's ball. No strange clothes, altered features, or even a false mustache. He cared not one whit about his reputation. "Fine disguise," I said.

Tarun Shanker

#96. For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.

Walter De La Mare

#97. But the best part of the evening was that there were whole hours when we sat around the fire pit and didn't say a word. We were together as a group, but they knew I needed silence. That can be very hard for friends.

Robin Roberts

#98. The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

Bill Vaughan

#99. Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

Lewis Carroll

#100. I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.

Wendy E. Long