#dawn

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#cabin #children #cold #comes #dawns

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#dawn #day #enlighten #evil #generally

It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing. ↗

— Ben E. King

#dawned #life #me #money #my life

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#day #ever #me #untroubled

It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#even #got #had #how #i

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically. ↗

— Karl Rove

#bad #been #dawning #democrats #else

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. ↗

— John Ruskin

#close #dawn #every #life #setting

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving. ↗

— Eric Schmidt

#bad #because #bed #before #came

After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#after #already #been #began #bosses

It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#could #dawned #i #me #survive