- Breakfast
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- 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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media. I use my first hour awake for my morning routine of breakfast and meditation to prepare myself.
- Eat Breakfast
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- Nov 07, 2020
I eat breakfast pretty much 'round the clock - muffins in the morning, scones for lunch, cereal at night - which may be odd but is also oddly satisfying, if only because the choice is my own.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard in the firehouse to avoid the dessert thing. At 3 in the morning after some emergency, I have been known to eat an ice cream sandwich.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people go to the office and sit at a desk. When firefighters go to the office, we might birth a baby in the morning, save a drowning surfer in the afternoon, and run into a fire at night. What could be more interesting than that?
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I woke up in London one morning in the middle of an adrenaline surge, and I was just lying there - the sun was coming up - trying to think of the best way to describe this feeling, and 'pang' was the only word I could really use to describe it.
- Smile
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wake up every morning, I smile and say, 'Thank you.' Because out of my window I can see the mountains, then go hiking with my dog and share her bounding joy in the world.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.
- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, of course I was the coolest girl in the 3rd grade because I told everyone that my dad was a wrestler, and I would bring in these wrestling magazines of him, and every Saturday morning, he would be body slamming me on my bed.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a lot of power. Here, I can decide: training at six in the morning! Training 11 in the night! But my style is not to impose. I would like to convince the players of what they are doing. This takes more time.
- Bad Guys
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'
- Nov 07, 2020