[Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And the children have to come first. It's no use putting off their evening meal for two months.
For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly.
September is the time to begin again. In the country, when I could smell the wood-smoke in the forest, and the curtains could be drawn when the tea came in, on the first autumn evening, I always felt that my season of good luck had come.
With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun.
Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.
I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!
In my own house I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know. Although I had received no technical education I made myself master of chemistry and of the laboratory, which proved of lasting value.
Grasses are misty, The waters silent- A tranquil evening.
The crowds can be very loud, especially when you're playing in the evening.
There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
Imagine, if you can, what the rest of the evening was like. How they crouched by the fire which blazed and leaped and made much of itself in the little grate. How they removed the covers of the dishes, and found rich, hot savory soup, which was a meal in itself, and sandwiches and toast and muffins enough for both of them.
I love Some Enchanted Evening, and If I Loved You. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites.
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morningwith a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.
He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a. m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it's almost evening.
If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.
We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what in the morning was true will in evening become a lie.
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
It's a chore for a fellow to fear for his life more than once in an evening.
Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.
