Morning Quotes - Page 14

• As on many mornings in Marin, there is this sly strip of fog - water in it's most mystical incarnation - slithering over, around, and through the hills, making everything look ancient and unsolved.

  Jaimal Yogis

  Fog, Water, Looks

  Mu Soeng, Jaimal Yogis (2010). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Good morning! What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for four hundred thousand.

  Wavy Gravy

  Mind, Bed, Breakfast

  "Woodstock", www.imdb.com. 1970.

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• I get up at the same time every morning.

  Mehmet Oz

  Get Up, Every Morning

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• Between last night and this morning, I've been getting a lot of messages from overseas fans along the lines of 'There's an American comic ripping off Bleach!' I'm not that good at English, but I looked at the site and it seems it's a comic by Nick Simmons, the son of Gene Simmons. To be honest, I'm more bothered by the fact that Gene Simmons' son is a comic artist than whether or not it's a rip-off.

  Tite Kubo

  Rip, Son, Artist

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• There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.

  Robert Breault

  Self, Wake Up, Faults

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• Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.

  Robert Breault

  Wise, Toss, Trash

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• I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.

  E. B. White

  Night, Men, Two

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• Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, the same hour when many are standing to sing: "In Christ There Is No East Nor West.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, School, Sunday

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.219, Beacon Press

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• ...this pause of rest, This morning hush before the sun.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Sun, Hush, Pauses

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• The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit!

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Flower, Tears, Bears

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• Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the first lasted him from night to morning, indicating a sound body and a mind free from care; but his master, being unable to sleep himself awakened him, saying, "I am amazed, Sancho, at the torpor of thy soul; it seems as if thou wert made of marble or brass, insensible of emotion or sentiment!

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sleep, Night, Soul

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1866). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.681

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• Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Wrinkles, Purple

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.118, Harvard University Press

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• I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Football, Monday

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• There is something to be said for waking up every morning and seeing the sun.

  Landon Donovan

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• The way I would measure leadership is this: of the people that are working with me, how many wake up in the morning thinking that the company is theirs?

  David M. Kelley

  Thinking, People, Wake Up

  "David Kelley on Designing Curious Employees". Interview with Kermit Pattison, www.fastcompany.com. April 11, 2011.

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• I'm really optimistic in the mornings.

  Kary Mullis

  Optimistic

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• ...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Midnight, May

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.193

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• The great pulsation of nature beats too in my breast, and when I carol aloud, I am answered by a thousand-fold echo. I hear a thousand nightingales. Spring hath sent them to awaken Earth from her morning slumber, and Earth trembles with ecstasy, her flowers are hymns, which she sings in inspiration to the sun.

  Heinrich Heine

  Nature, Spring, Flower

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.172

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• Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.

  Heinrich Heine

  Time, Rays, Lasts

  Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

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• Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, Sea, Green

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.60, Delphi Classics

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• The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!

  T. S. Eliot

  Stars, Twilight, Moon

  T. S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.175, Faber & Faber

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• How could Triple H EVER be mad, how could he EVER have a bad day? How would you like to be married to her?! Wake up in a wonderful mood every morning. I mean, look at that!

  Jerry Lawler

  Mean, Bad Day, Wwe

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• Each morning we sat reading our copy of the New York Times, the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times and ruminated on their prophecies of doom and quagmire. Then we looked up to see, on television, correspondents actually embedded with our troops, reporting quick advances, one- sided firefights, melting opposition and, finally, welcoming crowds.

  Dick Morris

  New York, Reading, Melting

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• In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.

  John F. Kerry

  Winning, Wake Up, Politics

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• Which of the following two groups contains the most former grand dragons of the Ku Klux Klan - the first 59 Tea Party people you run into this morning, or the U.S. Senate Democratic caucus?

  Howie Carr

  Running, Party, Two

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