Morning Quotes - Page 16

• O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.

  William Blake

  Night, Earth, Return

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.65, Routledge

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• The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers’ eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.

  Charles Dickens

  Dream, Eye, Night

  Charles Dickens (2017). “The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens: 20 Illustrated Classics in One Volume: Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield…”, p.2072, e-artnow

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• The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing.... So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer young—that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid.

  Alexander Smith

  Wine, Hair, Discovery

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• And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from a transference of interest. What is taken from this world is given to the next. The glory is in the east in the morning, it is in the west in the afternoon, and when it is dark the splendour is irradiating the realm of the under-world. He would only follow.

  Alexander Smith

  Taken, Dark, Men

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first fallen flake of the coming snows of age - is a disagreeable thing.

  Alexander Smith

  Hair, Discovery, Snow

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• We just were a band one day. We woke up and in the morning we were a band.

  The Rev

  One Day, Band

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• When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Lovely, Ordinary, Want

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• That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Should Have, Bird, Bed

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• This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.

  Langston Hughes

  Eggs, Two, Noon

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• I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

  Brian McKnight

  Sleep, Night, Musician

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• My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

  William Faulkner

  Jobs, Writing, Quiet

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• But with morning cool repentance came.

  Walter Scott

  Forgiveness, Repentance

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• I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.

  Anne Tyler

  Dream, Nice, Sleep

  Anne Tyler (1992). “If Morning Ever Comes”

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• One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Father, Lying, Night

  Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

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• You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

  Robert Breault

  Two, Heaven, Age

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• If you don't watch out, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes.

  Robert Breault

  Clothes, Watches, Unhappiness

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• Find peace in the morning rush and you will have a good day.

  Michael Dolan

  Good Day, Have A Good Day, Finding Peace

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• I want to take my focus off myself and focus on God. It's like setting your spiritual compass so no matter which way you turn during the day, whatever comes up, then my thoughts go back to Him and whatever He said that morning.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Spiritual, Focus, Want

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• I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one.

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

  Clouds, Two, Dawn

  John Gardiner Calkins BRAINARD (1842). “The Poems of John G. C. Brainard. A New and Authentic Collection, with an Original Memoir of His Life. [With a Portrait.]”, p.19

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• As we shave it happens that we cut ourself with the razor blade; this does not mean that we must not shave in the morning any longer. It is the same thing for yoga.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Mean, Cutting

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.56, Shambhala Publications

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• People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.

  Mick Cornett

  Government, Oklahoma, People

  "Oklahomans stand firmly Republican" by Rick Jervisusa, abcnews.go.com.

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• I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very simple on the digestive system - I tend to keep it light. I love Japanese food too - sushi, sashimi and miso soup.

  Shilpa Shetty

  Simple, Night, Light

  "What's in your basket?". Interview with John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2008.

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• I'm not an early bird at all. Ideally, on Saturday morning I'd allow myself a lovely lie-in. 10:45 would be just right.

  Shilpa Shetty

  Lying, Bird, Lovely

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• So we raise her up every morning, we take her down every night, we don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up right. On second thought, I do like to brag 'cause I'm mighty proud of the Ragged Old Flag.

  Johnny Cash

  Night, Flags, Proud

  Johnny Cash (2004). “Johnny Cash, the Songs”

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• A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!

  Laozi

  Rain, Persistence, Men

  "Tao Te Ching". Chapter 3 as translated by Lionel Giles,

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