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.
“We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.”
“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.”
“The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”
“Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.”
“I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.”
“Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.”
“Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.”
“The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.”
“'Good Morning America' exploited Joan Lunden's pregnancy, but you won't see me bringing my babies on the air. The only reason I'm talking about the babies at all is that they've been with me on the show since I became pregnant. After a while, I had to acknowledge this pumpkin tummy.”
“Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.”
“Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.”
“I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.”
“I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.”
“How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.”
“Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.”
“A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.”