Morning Quotes - Page 15

• The most important thing is to try and enjoy life because you never know when it will be gone. If you wake up in the morning and have a choice between doing the laundry and taking a walk in the park, go for the walk. You'd hate to die and realize you had spent your last day doing the laundry.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Hate, Choices

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• The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and I'm going to try to tell the truth as well as I know and tell it as eloquently as I can so that people can hear it.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Grateful, People

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• Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets with a raunchy sexual reductionism, despairing scientism, morally normless cultural relativism, and self-assertive individualism. We remain resident aliens, OF the world but not profoundly in it, dining at the banquet table of waning modernity without a whisper of table grace. We all wear biblical name tags (Joseph, David, and Sarah), but have forgotten what our Christian names mean.

  Thomas Oden

  Christian, Mean, Biblical

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• I humbly thank the gods benign, For all the blessings that are mine... The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy. Home-bound, the drifting cloud-crafts rest Where sunset ambers all the west; Soft o'er the poppy-fields of sleep, The drowsy winds of dreamland creep. What idle things are wealth and fame Beside the treasures one could name!

  Robert Loveman

  Gratitude, Sunset, Sleep

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• The Dawn is a wild, fair woman, With sunrise in her hair; Look where she stands, with pleading hands, To lure me there.

  Robert Loveman

  Hair, Hands, Sunrise

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• The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy. Home-bound, the drifting cloud-crafts rest Where sunset ambers all the west...

  Robert Loveman

  Home, Sunset, Clouds

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• The birds that wake the morning, and those that love the shade; The winds that sweep the mountain or lull the drowsy glade; The Sun that from his amber bower rejoiceth on his way, The Moon and Stars, their Master's name in silent pomp display.

  Reginald Heber

  Nature, Stars, Moon

  Reginald Heber (1858). “The poetical works of Reginald Heber”, p.252

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• Things always look better in the morning.

  Angie Sage

  Looks

  Angie Sage (2012). “Magyk: Septimus Heap”, p.274, A&C Black

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• There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for.

  Peter De Vries

  Breakfast, Seems, One Thing

  Peter De Vries (1982). “Forever panting”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God's grace.

  E. B. White

  Sunday, Grace, Kitchen

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• I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

  Francois Truffaut

  School, Theater, Skip

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• Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Earth, Firsts

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• There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.

  Richard Wilbur

  Honesty, Fall, Water

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.385, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter...
  Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Believe, Belief

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• It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

  Hermann Hesse

  Blue, Sky, Clothes

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• It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doubt, Rising, Lasts

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

  David Eddings

  Literature, Sun, Hours

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• If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your back, submitting to searches morning and evening, working until you are utterly exhausted, dragged into the cooler whenever someone denounces you, trodden deeper and deeper into the ground-from the hole you're in, the fine words of the great humanists will sound like the chatter of the well-fed and free.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Years, Clothes, Numbers

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• After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Age, Wake Up

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.142, Harvard University Press

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• It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.

  Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

  Girl, Country, Cutting

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• My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.

  Victor Hugo

  Death, Next, Blind

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• Philostratus, in his Life of Apollonius Tyaneus represents the latter as informing King Phraotes that "the Oneiropolists, or Interpreters of Visions, are wont never to interpret any vision till they have first enquired the time at which it befell; for, if it were early, and of the morning sleep, they then thought that they might make a good interpretation thereof... in that the soul was then fitted for divination, and disincumbered. But if in the first sleep, or near midnight, while the soul was as yet clouded and drowned in libations, they, being wise, refused to give any interpretation.

  Anna Kingsford

  Wise, Kings, Sleep

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• O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst.

  Robert Frost

  Autumn, Land, October

  Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.23, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Winter, Men

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Misérables: Fantine”, p.107, Library of Alexandria

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• [L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning.

  William Blake

  Light, Dew, East

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.6, Wordsworth Editions

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