Morning Glory Quotes

• A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

  Walt Whitman

  Beauty, Nature, Morning

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Happiness is NOW! It isn't tomorrow. It isn't yesterday. Happiness is like a morning glory: Yesterday's won't bloom again; tomorrow's hasn't opened yet. Only today's flower can be enjoyed today. Be happy this very moment, and you'll learn how to be happy always.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Happiness, Morning, Flower

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• Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Names, Sunrise

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.144, Princeton University Press

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• Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Kindness, Watches

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Nov 12, 2016

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• The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.

  Alan Watts

  Morning, Heart, Years

  "The essence of Alan Watts".

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• The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

  Richard Rohr

  Morning, Light, Sunflower

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• I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.

  Matsuo Basho

  Morning, Gazing, Breakfast

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• Reform is like morning glories; they look great early in the day and then they disappear.

  George W. Plunkitt

  Morning, Political, Reform

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• Morning Glory's introduction to the magical ways of the Goddess, manifest in our time, has enlarged my understanding of Pagan ways, enriching my spirit and imagination.

  Elinor Gadon

  Morning, Imagination, Understanding

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• Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety – best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just happens to be where you are in the universe to keep us from ever-darkness, to ease us with warm touching, to hold us in the great hands of light – good morning, good morning, good morning. Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Stars, Kindness

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.3, Beacon Press

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• I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Nature, Morning, Purple

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• It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious

  Anne Sexton

  Religious, Morning, Heart

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the morning glory, will quickly choke its competitors to death, and the fencerow rose will just as quietly crowd out any other plant that tried to share its roothold. Idealism and mercy are human terms and human concepts.

  Hal Borland

  Morning, Nature, Compassion

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• His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with the circumspect tenderness of comrades who are amputees, for we were surrounded by the most moving images of evanesecence, fireworks, morning glories, the old, children. But the most moving of these images were the intagible relfections of ourselves we saw in one another's eyes, reflections of nothing but appearances, in a city dedicated to seeming, and, try as we might to possess the essence of each other's otherness, we would inevitably fail.

  Angela Carter

  Morning, Children, Moving

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• I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in Morning Glory with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

  Rachel McAdams

  Funny, Art, Morning

  "Rachel McAdams: OK, We Love This Girl!". Interview with Alexandra Marshall, www.glamour.com. January 2, 2012.

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• She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Morning, Princess, Lovely

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