Get Up Quotes - Page 27

• My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Morning, Weakness, Arms

  "Joni Eareckson Tada on Wilberforce Award, 'Better Off Dead Than Disabled' Mentality". Interview with Eryn Sun, www.christianpost.com. March 16, 2012.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

  Peter Temple

  Morning, Character, Plot

  "The unvarnished truth". Interview with Peter Craven, www.theaustralian.com.au. October 3, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and possibly little more worthy.

  George Ade

  Tired, Style, Different

  George Ade (1973). “Letters of George Ade”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cause my wife gets up and goes shopping.

  James Garner

  Shopping, Wife, Causes

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", June 14, 2004.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Wish, Labs

  Ingrid Newkirk's remarks at the National Animal Rights Convention, June 27, 1997.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers.

  Pete Rose

  People, Bragging, Pitcher

  Pete Rose, Whitehall, Hadlyme & Smith (1979). “Pete Rose: my life in baseball”, Doubleday Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wanna be strong, I wanna laugh along, I wanna belong to the living. Alive, alive, I wanna get up and jive, Wanna wreck my stockings in some jukebox dive.

  Joni Mitchell

  Strong, Laughing, Jukebox

  17 Copy quote

• I try to get up every day.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Trying

  "The Dick Cavett Show", September 9, 1969.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• [W]hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when he ends up looking like an accordion. A coyote isn't much, but it's better than being an accordion.

  Chuck Jones

  Fall, Worry, Coyotes

  5 Copy quote

• The Wisconsin senator gets up and says out loud what half of the country is thinking and talks about every day. This President broke the law and lied about it; he trashed the Constitution and hides himself in the flag.

  Russ Feingold

  Country, Thinking, Law

  4 Copy quote

• Every day Americans and their families need a champion, a champion who will fight for them every single day. And I want to be that champion. I want to get up every single day going to work for you, standing up for you.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, Champion, Needs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I write a little plan for the day. I write down what time I need to get up to go to the race, just so I'm organised in my mind. That way all I have to focus on during the day is the race, not how I'm going to get there. When you're training it's good to know what you're doing every day. You need to have a plan.

  Helen Jenkins

  Writing, Race, Focus

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time.

  Edward Kennedy

  Morning, Fall, Winter

  Esquire: The Meaning of Life, (p. 81), 2009.

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• How do you get up in the morning? Another wasted life it's so boring The system never failed you You failed yourself and all of your friends Now your heart is failing too A total system failure they pronounce you

  Juliana Hatfield

  Morning, Heart, Failing

  Song: Total System Failure, Album: Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure, 2000

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'd rather take a beating sometimes than get in that gym every morning. Anyone who gets up that early and says he likes it is a goddamned liar. The only good thing about it is that when I'm finished, I look at myself in the mirror and say, "Jack, you've done it again!

  Jack LaLanne

  Morning, Liars, Mirrors

  31 Copy quote

• I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.

  Jack Osbourne

  Morning, Broken, Alarms

  "The Osbournes". TV Series 2002–2005,

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't like to play above or below people's heads. Basically, I just like to get up in front of a crowd and rip it up.

  Angus Young

  Rip, Play, People

  Interview with NME magazine, October 1976.

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• People abhor boxing, and I agree, but I admire men and women who can stand in a ring like that, nowhere to hide. I've only been to a couple of boxing matches, and they're different from any other event. I'm not there to see blood; I'm there for the heart of someone being able to get up and keep going. And for the respect that's often there in the end.

  Markus Zusak

  Couple, Heart, Men

  4 Copy quote

• When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email.

  James G. Stavridis

  Email, Firsts, Checks

  4 Copy quote

• in McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to pick up your own order, you don't need to be there at all.

  Jim Butcher

  Order, People, Needs

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.6, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The real difference between those who want to write and those that do, is that those that do get up every day and do it.

  Leonard Wolf

  Real, Writing, Procrastination

  7 Copy quote

• But ignorance of the law is no excuse. A person is guilty even if he breaks the law unknowingly. I shall be perhaps the first of the defendants to get up on that stand and admit that I am at least partly guilty.

  Walther Funk

  Ignorance, Law, Firsts

  "The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses". Book by Leon Goldensohn, p. 82, 2010.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• "Do you not quarrel, brother Heber?" says one. No, I do not. But; when a woman begins to dispute me, about nine times out of ten I get up and say, "Go it," and then go off about my business; and if ever I am so foolish as to quarrel with a woman, I ought to be whipped; for you may always calculate that they will have the last word.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Brother, Nine, Lasts

  "Journal of Discourses", Volume 5, September 27, 1857.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• My working hours are not that conventional. I often get up about two in the morning and do a painting, and then I'll have a bath, and then I often feel very hungry around 4am, so I'll go into Soho and have a meal somewhere like Balans. That's what I love about living here - there's always life around me.

  Stella Vine

  Morning, Two, Meals

  "My Home: Stella Vine, Artist" by Tessa Williams-Akoto, www.independent.co.uk. November 30, 2005.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• To write three series a year you only need to commit to writing 10 pages per day, or editing 50 pages of text per day. Plus, writing is my job, and I need to write to eat, so I'm highly motivated to get up and get to work!

  Victoria Laurie

  Jobs, Writing, Editing

  4 Copy quote