Morning Quotes

• I'm grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet Earth. In the morning, I wake up with a sense of gratitude.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Up
  • Live
  • Beautiful

• My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Art
  • Night
  • Sleep

• Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one thought. In the middle of the day, distractions are unavoidable. I wonder if anything worthwhile has ever been written in the afternoon.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Night
  • Focus
  • Brain

• As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some warm, still evening, the sweet rain-song of the robin echoes clear, and next day we wake up to a dim morning; soft flecks of cloud bar the sun's way, fleecy vapors steal across the sky, the southwest wind blows lightly, rippling the water into little waves that murmur melodiously as they kiss the shore.

  

  Celia Thaxter
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Sweet

• People think I am dead because they haven’t seen me around for awhile. I’m not dead, I’m very much alive, as you can see. Although, there are two things I do before I get up every morning. I look around and if I don’t smell flowers or see candles flickering I go ahead and get up.

  

  Red Skelton
  • People
  • Things
  • Dead

• When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.

  

  Paul Merton
  • Morning
  • Realising

• 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
  • Wonder
  • Bored
  • Hours

• I'm a gay disabled man who has become very successful. I don't get up in the morning and think I'm inspirational; I just get up thinking that I love horses.

  

  Lee Pearson
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Gay

• Spend regularly and constantly two or three hours of the morning in study and retirement. I do not take upon me to prescribe what you shall employ yourself about. I only propose the passing two or three hours of the twenty-four in private.

  

  David Berman
  • Hours
  • Retirement
  • Propose

• I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Work
  • Morning

• My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Mother
  • Born
  • Sickness

• Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.

  

  Warren Adler
  • Writing
  • Habit
  • Office

• If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not grow much wiser in that afternoon. All that he gained in return for his sixpenny omnibus ride, was a more vivid conviction that there never was, never could be, any one like Margaret; that she did not love him and never would; but that she — no! nor the whole world — should never hinder him from loving her.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Morning
  • Conviction
  • Wiser

• When you wake up in the morning, you must really wake up totally-physically and mentally. Otherwise, don't bother with the day.

  

  Chungliang Al Huang
  • Morning
  • Wake Up
  • Bother

• Things always look better in the morning.

  

  Angie Sage
  • Morning
  • Things
  • Look

• 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
  • Up
  • House
  • Peace

• You sit down in the morning on your own to write something. You get to the end of the day and it's not like you've cracked it and it's finished and it's done, because it can always be improved. It can always be changed. There is no right answer, so you can drive yourself crazy with just the expanse of infinite possibilities when it comes to writing.

  

  Dan Mazer
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Changed

• I don't like getting up in the morning, getting in a car, driving on a freeway, and stopping at a gate where two guards are standing there, then walk into a studio that looks like a bunch of airplane hangars.

  

  Peter Falk
  • Up
  • Car
  • Driving

• It's normally in the morning, just playing around. And I'm not saying everything I make is great, but that's what I do. I can't even remember how I wrote stuff.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Morning

• Good evening and welcome to Have I Got News for You, the show that's done for Friday and Saturday nights what ten pints of lager does for Sunday mornings, although I wouldn't know, being more partial to cocaine personally. Allegedly.

  

  Angus Deayton
  • Morning
  • Show
  • Friday

• Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, And doth it give me such a sight as this?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Long
  • Giving
  • Faces

• How rarely boyhood loves to paint in glowing tints his future bright, a picture where no line is faint--whose very clouds are touch'd with light. And girlhood hails a world unknown and reads it in her own glad dreams, as lilies see themselves alone reflected in their azure streams. But rosy clouds that morning brings, ere noon may deepen into thunder--and life's dark stream has sterner things than silver lilies growing under.

  

  Cecil Frances Alexander
  • World
  • Dream
  • Dark

• I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the typewriter into a bar of steel and clubbing yourself to death with it. (“Advance Notice”)

  

  Richard Matheson
  • Trying
  • Office
  • Melting

• I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.

  

  Mona Simpson
  • Writing
  • Silence
  • Lunch

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