How you start your morning sets the tone for everything that follows. These quotes cover dawn, routines, coffee, early risers, and the daily renewal that comes with the simple fact that you woke up and got another chance.
“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.”
“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.”
“If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.”
“In the morning, I reach for the sports page.”
“I get up at the same time every morning.”
“In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs.”
“When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.”
“Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.”
“In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.”
“We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.”
“I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.”
“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.”
“I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.”