Morning Quotes

• In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Heart
  • Party
  • Sorry

• A high percentage of organisations develop a military rationale, whereby only a very small number of people make all of the decisions. There is little wonder, then, that people aren't keen to get out of bed and come to work on a Monday morning.

  

  Ricardo Semler
  • Wonder
  • Numbers
  • Organisation

• I start every morning off with a green juice, because I think it's really important to be alkalined, and then I work out. We teach people that you need to find that balance and that what you put into your body is directly affecting your health.

  

  Yael Cohen
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• 'The past is the past,' Harry goes on, 'you got to live in the present. … It's the only way to think. When you're my age, you'll see it. At my age if you carried all the misery you've seen on your back you'd never get up in the morning.'

  

  John Updike
  • Up
  • Live
  • Age

• No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • City
  • Morning

• I've honestly been so lucky. I've never had a job where I didn't look forward to being on set in the morning.

  

  Jamie Bamber
  • Job
  • Morning

• 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
  • Experience
  • Father
  • Night

• From my grandmother, I started drinking warm water with lemon every morning just before breakfast. That's something she has been doing for years. It has helped me a lot with digestion. And then also eating seasonal fruit and vegetables, like not eating tomatoes in the winter.

  

  Margherita Missoni
  • She
  • Water
  • Winter

• I leave home about 7 in the morning.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Home
  • Morning
  • Leave

• The biggest difference between L.A. and my hometown in Georgia is when Georgia goes to sleep, L.A. wakes up. So, like, in LaGrange, when people are going to sleep at 10, 11 to get up in the morning, we're just getting dressed to go out.

  

  Elijah Kelley
  • People
  • Up
  • Sleep

• In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Wife
  • Spring
  • Rain

• This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai: if by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way. his whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Live
  • Heart

• Seven thirty in the morning is too early for a man of my standing.

  

  Matt Roper
  • Morning

• Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

  

  Lynn Johnston
  • Kids
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I always get everyone prepared so there aren't so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we're shooting that day. It's time-consuming but it reduces the chances of 'misunderstandings' on set.

  

  Tony Scott
  • Chance
  • Policy
  • Argument

• I'm such a fitness freak that I eat so plain, it's gross. I have oatmeal in the morning and then I have chicken breasts and vegetables and spinach shakes.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • Morning
  • Fitness

• 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
  • Purpose
  • Sun
  • Sorrow

• I get up every morning and I'm grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• Every day be thankful for the nights that turn into mornings, friends that turn into family and dreams that turn into reality.

  

  Granger Smith
  • Country
  • Dream
  • Night

• When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I kill someone, would you still love me?' My parents were very preoccupied with this, but I think I'm not the only one to ask for that - not love, but absolute fidelity.

  

  Claire Denis
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• The show tune I can never get out of my head is 'Oh, What A Beautiful Morning' from 'Oklahoma!' I don't know why.

  

  Megan Hilty
  • Why
  • Beautiful
  • Morning

• I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day has already lost a lot of its promise.

  

  Jennifer Gilmore
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Promise

• My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school.

  

  John Paul DeJoria
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• When I was working at Sony, I used to live near the beach. I'd get up in the morning, walk my dog, go for a swim with dolphins, and in 25 minutes I would be at Sony.

  

  Jon Feltheimer
  • Up
  • Live
  • Dog

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