morning

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘morning’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.” -Anthony Trollope

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  • “A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.” -Robertson Davies

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  • “Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.” -Shimon Peres

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  • “As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I’d get ready by myself. I’d set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me…

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  • “In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you’re preparing it for dinner. Don’t wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.” -Paula…

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  • “I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, ‘Am I a sex symbol?’ Then I go back to bed again. It’s stupid to think that way.” -Antonio Banderas

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  • “Yes, there’s such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o’clock in the morning. You’ll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o’clock in the morning.” -Louis Nizer

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  • “It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.” -George Ade

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  • “I write when I’m inspired, and I see to it that I’m inspired at nine o’clock every morning.” -Peter De Vries

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  • “But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn’t know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.” -Ben Affleck

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  • “Since I travel so much, it’s always great to be home. There’s nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.” -Amy Grant

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  • “I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.” -George Foreman

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  • “I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.” -Tammy Faye Bakker

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  • “It’s hard to think of yourself as a brand, especially when I have four daughters who kick my butt early in the morning every day before I go to work.” -Harvey Weinstein

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  • “I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.” -Natalie Wood

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  • “As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they’re going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.” -Frances O’Grady

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  • “It’s fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth – in other words ‘we can only afford to have one or two children because we don’t earn enough’. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those…

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  • “Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.” -Jack White

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  • “Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t hurt so bad the morning after.” -Elizabeth Wurtzel

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  • “We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don’t, in small ways. That’s what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.” -Christopher Nolan

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  • “I’d hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that’s as good as you’re going to feel all day.” -Dean Martin

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  • “‘Old times’ never come back and I suppose it’s just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that’s better.” -George Edward Woodberry

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  • “It was really like waking up one morning and going, Wow, I enjoy being with this person more than anybody else in my life, and it just turned out to be mutual.” -Brian Austin Green

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  • “I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.” -William Allen White

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  • “Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.” -Joan of Arc

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  • “Somebody said to me this morning, ‘To what do you attribute your longevity?’ I don’t know. I mean, I couldn’t have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I’ve lived the last 30 years!” -Ozzy Osbourne

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  • “Training is full-on. Some days I really don’t want to get out of bed and hit that track again. Sunday and Monday morning sessions are always horrible. But who really looks forward to going to work on a Monday morning?” -Jessica Ennis

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  • “I’ll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise – it had been a difficult night the night before – and a client said to me, ‘Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?’ And I said, ‘Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.’” -Vidal Sassoon

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  • “I should just put it bluntly, because we’re all sort of friends here now – it’s exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that’s the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o’clock in the morning, and I…

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  • “There’s nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won’t ring from room service your mother won’t be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you’re dead.” -David Mamet

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  • “There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can’t send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.” -Benjamin Netanyahu

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  • “You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You’re online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It’s a job that you never push aside.” -James Daly

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  • “Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day’s progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.” -John Updike

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  • “You always say ‘I’ll quit when I start to slide’, and then one morning you wake up and realize you’ve done slid.” -Sugar Ray Robinson

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  • “I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.” -Wole Soyinka

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  • “When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening – there wasn’t no 24-hour news.” -Dick Gregory

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  • “If you do cardio one day and the next day you can do weights, do it that way. If you need to do it at night or in the morning, do it that way. Whatever you need to get it done, just get it done.” -LL Cool J

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  • “Every Wednesday, my husband and I have a study group with our friends. I attend church. We try to devote time in the morning, say a prayer.” -Carrie Underwood

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  • “When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I’m really into eggs Benedict in the morning.” -Jenny McCarthy

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  • “If I want to get work done, that’s usually about 3 in the morning.” -Marc Andreessen

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  • “I see myself at 7:30 in the morning and it’s not too pretty.” -Rod Stewart

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  • “I like being in movies that have a great story. I’m not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It’s a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work.” -Kristen Stewart

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  • “‘Not again!’ I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don’t go right.” -Dee Dee Myers

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  • “I can’t tell you enough about cinnamon. Cinnamon is an awesome spice to use and it goes great with something like apples in the morning or in a mixture of fruit or in your oatmeal or even in your cereal.” -Emeril Lagasse

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  • “My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can’t beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.” -Gary Oldman

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  • “No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.” -Bram Stoker

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  • “I love the smell of shampoo on a girl’s hair. You can walk past someone and be like, ‘Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn’t you? Because you smell lovely.’” -Jensen Ackles

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  • “There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl’s requesting a signed photo of me.” -Michael Phelps

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  • “First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn’t the winner, tennis was. That’s awesome. I don’t know if I’ve ever felt so good here before.” -Andre Agassi

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  • “In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.” -Leon Askin

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  • “I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in.” -Martha Plimpton

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  • “Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence – then you’re told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.” -Kristin Scott Thomas

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  • “What’s the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn’t.” -Steven Patrick Morrissey

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  • “It’s wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn’t all about me.” -Kate Beckinsale

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  • “It didn’t matter what you look like. You don’t have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there’s a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I’ll just do the voice.” -Helena Bonham Carter

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  • “This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!” -Emma Thompson

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  • “It’s a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That’s where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.” -Bono

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  • “I’ve been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it’s just whining, but every so often there’ll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It’s an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. ‘That’s not what you said on February 3, 1996,’…

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  • “I pray every night before I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up.” -Demi Lovato

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  • “But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I’ll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.” -Cindy Crawford

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  • “I’m actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.” -Elizabeth Edwards

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  • “I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow…

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  • “I became a musician so I wouldn’t have to get up at 6 in the morning.” -Norah Jones

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  • “My father-in-law gets up at 5 o’clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don’t know why there’s this big rush to do this.” -Jeff Foxworthy

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  • “I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don’t know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.” -Glenn Beck

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  • “I’m always in bed by 11 or 12 and people laugh all the time – they want me to hang out until two in the morning, but n-n-no, I need my nine hours.” -Christina Ricci

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  • “We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.” -Ron Fournier

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  • “I hear that 5 o’clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I’m also not much of a morning writer. I have a sweet spot from about 11am to 4pm. But I really work during that time.” -Diablo Cody

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  • “I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.” -James Herriot

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  • “I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.” -Herb Alpert

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  • “I woke up this morning, and I still don’t believe I won the Daytona 500.” -Dale Earnhardt

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  • “Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.” -Nicolas Chamfort

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  • “I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people’s faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work.” -Drew Brees

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  • “Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.” -Elizabeth Bowen

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  • “I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.” -David Hockney

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  • “In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.” -Vivienne Westwood

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  • “There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can’t look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a…

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  • “Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.” -Madeleine Albright

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  • “You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome – just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.” -Jean…

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  • “Every morning I wake up and thank God.” -Aaron Neville

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  • “I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I’ll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I’ll wear them everyday for a week!” -Cameron Russell

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  • “Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.” -Pamela Anderson

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  • “I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.” -Karl Lagerfeld

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  • “I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don’t think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.” -Charles Kuralt

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  • “Your computer needn’t be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.” -Simon Mainwaring

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  • “I do believe at the end of the night when you’re with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.” -Liam Neeson

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  • “As far as I’m concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.” -Neil Gaiman

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  • “You can’t be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: ‘Holy Christ, whaddya know – I’m still around!’ It’s absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.” -Paul Newman

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  • “And my only rule being if when I wake in the morning I’m looking forward to the things that I have to do that day, then I’m on the right track.” -Demetri Martin

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  • “When I wake up in the morning, I just can’t get started until I’ve had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I’ve tried other enemas.” -Emo Philips

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  • “Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn’t just a new livelihood. It was a new life.” -Paul Ryan

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  • “You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.” -Billy Wilder

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  • “And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.” -Alanis Morissette

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  • “I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I’m watching the highlights.” -Jay London

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  • “The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I’m tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to…

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  • “I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I’ve wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.” -James Rollins

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  • “These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night’s arms.” -Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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  • “My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed!” -Anne Sullivan

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  • “I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else’s door. Because I don’t want the remnants. I don’t want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.” -Drew Barrymore

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  • “To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.” -Sidney Poitier

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  • “The less I behave like Whistler’s mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.” -Tallulah Bankhead

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  • “I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.” -Bobby Knight

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  • “I’ve just finished my 20th book this past year and I’m working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I’ll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my…

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  • “Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.” -Franz Schubert

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  • “I’m very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, ‘hey girl, you’re alright’. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can’t take anything like that too seriously, otherwise…

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  • “One morning, just like 9/11, there’s going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.” -Newt Gingrich

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  • “What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?” -Jennifer Aniston

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  • “Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it’s probably because you need the sleep.” -Sophia Bush

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  • “You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, ‘Mick, it’s time to get yourself a new spoon.’ And you do.” -Mick Jagger

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  • “I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It’s part of my schedule I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.” -Deepak Chopra

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  • “I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains – so simple, so true, if once understood.” -Max Muller

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  • “I love being. There’s so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn’t it great just being?” -Gwyneth Paltrow

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  • “I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.” -Jonathan Swift

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  • “Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can’t escape it.” -Shahrukh Khan

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  • “The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning.” -Lewis Thomas

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  • “Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.” -Yoko Ono

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  • “I’m going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.” -Michael J. Fox

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  • “The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.” -Alice Cooper

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  • “A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you’re rehearsing, you’re working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you’re doing the play, you have all day.” -Maggie Gyllenhaal

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  • “There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.” -Mac Davis

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  • “When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.” -Lady Gaga

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  • “How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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  • “‘The Panorama’ is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.” -Jerry…

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  • “Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.” -A. E. Housman

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  • “On a day when you’re tired, it’s important to just say good morning to everyone so they’re kind of aware that it’s gonna be a good day. Jamie Lee Curtis told me that.” -Lindsay Lohan

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  • “The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.” -Ogden Nash

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  • “I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.” -Thomas Huxley

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  • “It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.” -Abu Bakr

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  • “It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.” -Konrad Lorenz

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  • “There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.” -David Herbert Lawrence

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  • “And I know this happens because I took economics, and I’d explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o’clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.” -Lewis Black

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  • “Then there is a still higher type of courage – the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.” -Howard Cosell

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  • “Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.” -Rose Kennedy

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  • “My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.” -Gena Lee Nolin

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  • “What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.” -Sinclair Lewis

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  • “On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.” -Josh McDowell

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  • “A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.” -Sholom Aleichem

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  • “Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.” -Jean Paul

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  • “Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.” -Henry Rollins

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  • “Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.” -Golda Meir

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  • “I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.” -Quentin Tarantino

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  • “Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don’t think its fair that I’m living for something I can’t even define.” -Ani DiFranco

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  • “The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.” -Ray Bradbury

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  • “That’s the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they’d be like, ‘Yeah, big deal. I’d eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you’re pulling down.’” -Jim Carrey

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  • “Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.” -Charles Dickens

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  • “When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.” -Helen Hayes

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  • “Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.” -George W. Bush

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  • “I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.” -John Barrymore

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  • “In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.” -Carl Sandburg

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  • “Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.” -Samuel Butler

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  • “There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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  • “I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.” -Antonin Artaud

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  • “Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one’s lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living.” -Gilbert Parker

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  • “If you want to be an entrepreneur, it’s not a job, it’s a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm – last thing at night you’ll send emails, first thing in the morning you’ll read emails, and you’ll wake up in the middle of the night. But it’s hugely…

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  • “The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I’m on vacation, there is no schedule.” -Kelly Clarkson

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  • “I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.” -Marie Corelli

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  • “When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.” -Tom Kite

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  • “On Sunday morning, I’m not nervous… I can’t wait to tell what God wants me to say.” -Charles Stanley

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  • “It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.” -Zora Neale Hurston

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  • “The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.” -Samuel Johnson

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  • “In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.” -Henry David Thoreau

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  • “My mother had morning sickness after I was born.” -Rodney Dangerfield

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  • “Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist – because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That’s how she found out what happened on the day my father died – she went looking…

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  • “Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.” -Bill Gates

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  • “A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.” -Anais Nin

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  • “The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.” -Hunter S. Thompson

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  • “Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power – a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.” -Marsha Sinetar

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  • “To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.” -Angelina Jolie

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  • “I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.” -Nelson Mandela

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  • “I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.” -Jodi Picoult

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  • “There’s pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don’t get to know everybody, I don’t get to go to their ballgame, I don’t get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day…

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  • “Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.” -Emily Dickinson

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  • “We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.” -Henry Ward Beecher

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  • “If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’” -Lyndon B. Johnson

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  • “I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.” -Aleister Crowley

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  • “It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.” -Aldous Huxley

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  • “I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don’t think about it is when I’m playing it.” -Carl Yastrzemski

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  • “I think it’s been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.” -P. J. O’Rourke

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  • “I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.” -Benjamin Franklin

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  • “When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.” -Tecumseh

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