Top 159 Bedtime Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories.
Some guys joke, 'Oh, you have a bedtime.' But I've got to be able to function the next day at the top level.
Today, in this, the 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR.
And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?
In this 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR [Digital Video Recorder].
Bedtime is truly one of my favorite times.
The legend of a cable company trying to break the Internet makes scary bedtime stories for children of telecom geeks, but it is not reality.
Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings.
I've made a point throughout my girls' lives of reading them bedtime stories about strong, innovating women, whether it's Oprah Winfrey or Frida Kahlo.
There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.
A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.
We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.
I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules - I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn't believe I didn't have to answer to anyone.
I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.
Instead of a sandwich, you're much better off enjoying a delicious and filling supper of around 400 calories - and that will see you right through until bedtime.
Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.
Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.
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.
Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner.
I was told bedtime stories by my father or my grandmother. Books, I mostly read on my own in bed.
On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.
I like this job - most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read 'em a bedtime story. It's almost like a normal life.
This one time I stayed up way past my bedtime... man that was scary.
I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
I'm the alpha parent most of the time, but bedtime is a completely different animal.
I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'
Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.
Love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.
Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.
I have an elaborate wind-down ritual, which combines reading, ESPN, movies, and jamming the blues on my keyboard. There's still a part of me that's a little kid who is psyched because I no longer have a bedtime!
It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.
When I was a kid, my father would read Neil Simon plays with me, when I was going to bed, as bedtime stories.
Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.
I'm nearsighted, in part, because I would read past my bedtime in the dark. I didn't want my mom to see that I was still awake.
The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.
When I was eight we went to Las Vegas for my brother Michael's 21st birthday, and my bedtime was pushed back quite late. I was always waking up as everyone was rolling in from their night out. It was an eye-opener!
I just used to make up stories for the kids at bedtime and my wife goes, 'you should start putting that stuff down.' It's such a joy to do.
Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have
To wear away this long age of three hours
Between our after-supper and bedtime?
We read to our kids at bedtime because we want to have literacy, but what are we doing to make sure kids are equally fascinated by science?
I started writing really early on, and my brother Jordan was my first audience. I would come up with scary stories to tell him at bedtime.
I don't ever remember not praying. Bedtime prayers, the rosary, praying for friends, relatives, for the sick and for those who had died. It was a natural part of our lives.
My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters.
So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.
From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.
To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.
The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.
Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!
So even though 'Sanditon' was filmed in Gloucestershire on the coast, which was gorgeous, it meant I could finish work, get home, and do a few bedtime stories.
Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.
My dad did every single accent under the sun, and he would read bedtime stories.
If you're really tired, I could put you to sleep," he said. "Tell you a bedtime story." She looked at him. "Are you serious?" "I'm always serious
The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.
New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.
Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.
I used to go to Cold Stone Creamery, get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.
When you say 'Bedtime, bedtime, bedtime!' that's not what the child hears. What the child hears is 'Lie down in the dark... for hours... and don't move... I'm locking the door now.'
Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.
Bedtime is when I get most anxious because I have time to contemplate. I'm also more likely to question my mortality and catastrophise if I've seen or heard something upsetting about somebody.
Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.
Studies have shown that people who are physically active sleep better than those who are sedentary. The more energy you expend during the day, the sleepier you will feel at bedtime.
