“There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.”
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.
“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.”
“There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.”
“Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.”
“My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let's do that. I don't mean to complicate things. It's just - why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there's no dill in the house?”
“The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.”
“On 'Morning Joe' I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well.”
“I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.”
“Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.”
“I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.”
“I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna.”
“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.”
“When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don't know what you're going to see.”
“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.”
“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.”
“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 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.”