Get Up Quotes - Page 16

How can I have morning sickness when I don't get up till noon?

Rita Rudner

Funny Inspirational, Morning, Noon

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After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see. He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His vertical leap is at least as good as mine. He can get up and down the floor as well as I can. And he's smart. The real problem with all this is I have to show up.

Bill Russell

Basketball, Real, Smart

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If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

Don Meyer

Basketball, Morning, Practice

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We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can't lay down in the street and act like you're dead because they will kill you for sure. You might as well get up and fight.

Don Meyer

Basketball, Fighting, Might

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Most people who are healthy, and I'm healthy, can't even live my life. Trust me. I get up 530-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles. I lift weights, and then I'm at work until 8-9 o'clock at night.

Magic Johnson

Motivational, Basketball, Running

"Magic Johnson pushes HIV awareness". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2004.

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He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.

Rudyard Kipling

Baby, Cat, Moon

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Orison Swett Marden

Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.

Lance Armstrong

Family, Morning, Mirrors

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The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to school.

Milton Berle

Education, Teaching, School

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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

William Ralph Inge

Accountability, Share

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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.

Joyce Carol Oates

Husband, Writing, Cat

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There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.

Woody Hayes

Motivational, Football, Winning

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Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.

Michael Drayton

Valentines Day, Winter, Bird

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As long as you have faith, you're willing to try to take another chance. God wants you to amble toward the right spot on the horizon. The idea is that you're willing to get up and keep moving toward that light.

Billy Corgan

Perseverance, Moving, Light

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I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise.

Shimon Peres

Wise, Morning, Book

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Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.

Richard Dawkins

Father, Reality, Suffering

"Science saves". www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2004.

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People need to wake up and realize that life doesn't wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.

Robert Kiyosaki

Life, Motivational, Inspiration

Twitter post from Nov 18, 2013

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We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.

David Steindl-Rast

Life, Positive, Gratitude

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We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.

Dave Allen

Running, Sleep, Giving

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Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.

Amarillo Slim

Sports, Hockey, Looks

"Amarillo Slim obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

Jelly Roll Morton

Music, Hurt, Piano

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It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.

Walter Winchell

Summer, Chairs, Ifs

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In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Summer, Winter, Night

A Child's Garden of Verses "Bed in Summer" l. 1 (1885)

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Given a choice between hearing my daughter say "I'm pregnant" or "I used a condom", most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.

Joycelyn Elders

Mother, Daughter, Witty

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In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That's the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That's the guy you guys need to be.

Greg Plitt

Motivational, Perseverance, Winning

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