Sunrise Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 21, 2024
‘Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.’ – Vladimir Nabokov
‘There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.’ – Bernard Williams
‘If you are in a beautiful place where you can enjoy sunrise and sunset, then you are living like a lord.’ – Nathan Phillips
‘The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.’ – Ram Charan
‘Lost – yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.’ – Horace Mann
‘Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.’ – Walt Whitman
‘Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.’ – Joe Adcock
‘There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.’ – Carlos Santana
‘Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.’ – George Washington Carver
‘At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.’ – Norman Maclean
‘What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?’ – E. M. Forster
‘Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.’ – Ansel Adams
‘For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise – whatever appeals to you.’ – Krzysztof Kieslowski
‘Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.’ – George Grey
‘Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there’s something good about feeling both.’ – Amy Grant
‘The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.’ – Catherine Opie
‘There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.’ – Derek Walcott
”Sunrise Sunset’ is about trying to get to a place where life is simple and not letting the stress and happenings in the world get in the way of your happiness.’ – Benny Cassette
‘Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.’ – Marilyn vos Savant
‘There are thousands of ragas, and they are all connected with different times of the day, like sunrise or night or sunset. It is all based on 72 of what we call ‘mela’ or scales. And we have principally nine moods, ranging from peacefulness to praying, or the feeling of emptiness you get by sitting by the ocean.’ – Ravi Shankar
‘I tend to go to bed really early on New Year’s Eve. Then I wake up early, drive up while it’s still dark, and hike out somewhere beautiful to watch the sunrise. I just take a couple hours and have a post-mortem of the year.’ – Charlie Hunnam
‘The world is an increasingly dangerous, troubled place. There are nations that seem to be ungovernable. Nations where violence and religious combat are as common as the sunrise.’ – Mike Barnicle
‘For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.’ – Richard Baker
‘Our biggest learnings come only from the biggest blows, hence, I’d request one and all to look out for the silver linings and focus on positive thoughts and ideas, because as I always say, every cloud has a silver lining, and every sunset ends with a beautiful sunrise.’ – Rituparna Sengupta
‘My favorite place to go is Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. If you see it at sunrise and sunset, it’s like you’re on Mars.’ – Petra Collins
‘I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.’ – Catherine Opie
‘Watching sunrise and sunset from space, which is a beautiful sight, has been a personal privilege I have attained while being there. Another reflection from within I felt was that there was nothing which was neither visible and nor with a supportive environment as to how Planet Earth is.’ – Rakesh Sharma
‘My California sunrise, there’s a real mist in the air. I think of the mountains. You can smell the farm fields. You can smell the dirt and the lights and the whole sun.’ – Jon Pardi
‘The people that I grew up with had no problem with my faith. They did, however, seem very concerned that I would starve to death during Ramadan. I would explain to them that I have enough fat to live off of for three whole months, so fasting from sunrise to sunset is a piece of cake.’ – Maysoon Zayid
‘I wouldn’t be surprised if tomorrow was the Final Dawn, the last sunrise before the Earth and Sun are reshaped into computing elements.’ – Eliezer Yudkowsky
‘One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?’ – Donald Miller
”Sunrise Sunset’ is a letter I wrote to a girl I was once with who I really thought I was going to fall in love with. We tried to make it work but always had trouble maintaining a real relationship because we were both so caught up with work, life, and everything else that at the time seemed like it was the priority.’ – Benny Cassette
‘Urban development in India… will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world.’ – Kushal Pal Singh
‘A ‘Magik’ session is a journey through different stages of emotions and the ‘Search for Sunrise’ is more chilling music for when you come home after a party or when you are just about to go to one.’ – Tiesto
‘On the last morning of Virginia’s bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.’ – Patricia Cornwell
‘Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.’ – Muddy Waters
‘Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.’ – Richard Linklater
‘I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.’ – Conrad Hall
‘You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you’re aware of the ratings, you aren’t prepared for the response of the fans.’ – Parker Stevenson
‘To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face.’ – George Grey
‘I’m most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page… sunrise over the desert and masses of… a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.’ – Anthony Hopkins
‘When you do ‘Before Sunset,’ you know while it’s a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love ‘Before Sunrise.’ You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it.’ – Ethan Hawke
‘I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I’m an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.’ – Padma Lakshmi
‘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
‘I get up at sunrise. I’m a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it’s list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It’s not back-breaking, but it’s certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.’ – Patrick Duffy
‘I’d come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for inspiration. I converted one of the bedrooms into my workspace and through its windows watched the wildlife appear each morning with the sunrise. Many were the days I would sit in wonder, coffee in hand, for hours.’ – David Mixner
‘Christians might say that you can’t live a more meaningful life without Jesus. Well, that’s absolutely not true. You can. You can enjoy a sunrise whether you know Jesus or not.’ – Donald Miller
‘My first place in Nashville was like ‘Animal House.’ The whole band lived under one roof, and most nights the jam sessions ended close to sunrise.’ – Charlie Worsham
‘I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of ‘A Flag for Sunrise’ to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.’ – Madison Smartt Bell
‘The director Sofia Coppola’s new comic melodrama, ‘Lost in Translation,’ thoroughly and touchingly connects the dots between three standards of yearning in movies: David Lean’s ‘Brief Encounter,’ Richard Linklater’s ‘Before Sunrise’ and Wong Kar-wai’s ‘In the Mood for Love.” – Elvis Mitchell
‘When I was younger I would go to the airport with my friends and drive out 2 A.M., 3 A.M. in the morning and just hang out until sunrise watching planes fly in and fly out. Just sit there and dream about how, one day, that’s going to be us in those flights. We’re gonna be one of those people with places to go.’ – Yuna
”Dirt on My Boots’ was pegged as the second single from ‘California Sunrise’ from the get-go, and we felt like it was just a fun song to go with.’ – Jon Pardi
‘Across our small globe, dawn sweeps each morning, lighting cities and cottages, barrios and villages. Whoever and wherever you may be, you can step out into that morning sunrise and know, from our American example, that life does not have to be the way it is for you.’ – Sheldon Whitehouse
‘When you shoot on location, you need the sunrise natural light, so you need to be up and ready. I never get used to waking up so early! I love sleep too much.’ – Bianca Balti
‘I love the sunrise, as I am definitely a morning person! It’s a great time to get up and have a coffee in the garden by myself before everybody wakes up.’ – Bianca Balti
‘Laos is a deeply Buddhist country, and my visit included a traditional Tak Bat ceremony, in which you get up at sunrise and make offerings to Buddhist monks.’ – Ben Rhodes
‘My name means ‘sunrise of life.” – Yalitza Aparicio
‘I love watching the sunrise and sunset and the sky, the birds.’ – Manisha Koirala
‘If I can see the sunrise – and I usually don’t – I like to. I’m a big fan of the sun.’ – Ezra Furman
‘Stonehenge is famously aligned with midsummer sunrise, and possibly also intentionally with midwinter sunset.’ – Alice Roberts
‘I’ve been playing Sunrise for years. I love it there. It’s so loosey-goosey. I was up at the Kravis Center and it was, like, ‘Oh my God!’ All the minkdraggers, you know?’ – Anne Murray
‘I have grown up on a diet of sunrise picnics, learning the names of butterflies, planting trees.’ – Dia Mirza
‘I’m not a night owl, but for Glasto there was no chance I was going to miss a moment. I heard intriguing things about watching the sunrise from the stone circle, so that was on my list.’ – Emma Corrin
‘One thing I can confirm is whenever I listen to ‘Laguna Sunrise,’ it sounds exactly like Laguna Beach. There’s something about it.’ – Bill Ward
‘I used to sign autographs until sunrise at Madison Square Garden.’ – Bob Backlund
‘My father, Harold, loved music. The radio was on all the time at home, and he had lots of great pop and light classical 78s. Karen and I especially loved Les Paul and Mary Ford, and their overdubbed vocals on songs like ‘How High the Moon’ and ‘The World is Waiting for the Sunrise.” – Richard Carpenter