- Nov 07, 2020
Morning Quotes
How you start the morning sets the tone.
A few of these are about quiet, private morning routines — writing early, reading the news — while another compares real friendship to the effort behind a good cup of coffee. For a spiritual start to the day, see our Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest.
- Friday Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning.
- Early Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
My morning rituals are typical. I wake up yearning for a few extra moments of rest. I express gratitude to a higher power for the breath in my body and the blessings in my life. I shower. I dress. I eat breakfast. I exchange laughter and words with my beloveds, embracing each other as we say our daily goodbyes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've only done what I've really wanted to burn up energy on. If you can't wake up in the morning and look forward to what you're going to do in the evening - and twice on a Wednesday and a Saturday - then it's not worth doing.
- Cool Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can play the main stage at the Newport Folk Festival in front of 10,000 people and do all the gigs and stuff I want to do. Then I can go home and get toilet paper on a Sunday morning and not get hassled.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't wake up in the morning thinking that I have to bag roles in all good films that are being made.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
- Ceremony
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020