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Quotes about Sunrise

The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced - it can not be told.
- Calvin Coolidge
From the surface of the Earth the Sun would have seemed to be flickering, as in a time-lapse movie. So there was a time when sunlight first broke through the dust pall, when the Sun, Moon and stars could first be noticed had there been anyone there to see them. There was a first sunrise and a first nightfall.
- Carl Sagan
At sunrise it always seems like you've got a good crack at getting everything done, but at sunset you know that you didn't.
- Barbara Kingsolver
As I stared out at the grim skyline, a bright sliver of the sun peeked over the horizon. Watching it rise, I performed a mental ritual: Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion stars in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.
- Ernest Cline
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.
- Harriet Tubman
Don't be afraid to step out and trust God. He is more faithful than the rising of the sun.
- Kari Jobe
It is sunrise, with Hope its arrogant rider.
- Maya Angelou
The resurrection of Christ changed the midnight of bereavement into a sunrise of reunion; it changed the midnight of disappointment into a sunrise of joy; it changed the midnight of fear to a sunrise of peace.
- Billy Graham
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with each sunrise and sunset, year after year with the seasons, down through the ages since time began.
- Francine Rivers
The Vedas say, All intelligences awake with the morning. Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise.
- Henry David Thoreau
Howard Taylor wrote of his father, "For forty years the sun never rose on China a single day that God didn't find him on his knees.
- Stephen Kendrick
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