Morning Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous,
  He must die a little death each morning,
  He must swallow his toad and study his vomit
  as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Poetry, Toads, Littles

  Delmore Schwartz (1989). “Last & Lost Poems”, p.53, New Directions Publishing

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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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• 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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• 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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• Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sex, People, Bed

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• That each sorrow has its purpose, By the sorrowing oft unguessed, But as sure as the sun brings morning, Whatever is-is best.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sorrow, Purpose, Sun

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.569, Delphi Classics

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• Good morning, God, I love You! What are You up to today? I want to be part of it.

  Norman Grubb

  Love You, Want, Today

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• It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.

  Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

  Girl, Country, Cutting

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• I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

  Ronald Reagan

  Jobs, Office, Oval

  Ronald Reagan (1990). “An American Life”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

  Karl Kraus

  Up Early, Stupidity, Events

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• Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.

  Ian Fleming

  Book, Writing, Three

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Age, Wake Up

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.142, Harvard University Press

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• The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, they speak to me. The summit of the mountain, the thunder of the sky, the rhythm of the sea, speaks to me. The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me. The strength of the fire, the taste of the salmon, the trail of the sun, and the life that never goes away, they speak to me. And my heart soars.

  Chief Dan George

  Nature, Stars, Flower

  Chief Dan George, “My Heart Soars”

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• There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Horny, Fatigue

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim. Writers ought to live far inland or next to the city dump, if they are ever to get any work one. Or perhaps they need to be stronger-minded than I am.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Writing, Sea, Cities

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• I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I'm going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don't really want to do that first thing in the morning.

  Mehmet Oz

  Workout, Yoga, Want

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• I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Real, Book, Reading

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• I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

  Jeannette Walls

  Writing, Desks

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• Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.

  Janet Frame

  Mean, Hands, Order

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.

  Paul Theroux

  Dark, Lakes, Long

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.

  John Hersey

  Girl, Past, Eight

  John Hersey (1946). “Hiroshima”

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• I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.

  Gene Hackman

  Writing, Eight, Wife

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