Morning Quotes - Page 33

• What would dawn have been like, had you awakened? It would have sung through your bones. All I can do this morning is let it sing through mine.

  Diane Ackerman

  Dawn, Bones, Can Do

  "The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death". Book edited by David Shields & Bradford Morrow, 2011.

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• In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Lying, Lakes

  "True at First Light" by Ernest Hemingway, (Ch. 10), 1999.

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• But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a Watteau drawing or an inaccurate transcription of a fourteenth-century epigraph is a sin against the spirit and in the afternoon or evening transmits to the agents of Soviet intelligence classified, perhaps vital information given to him in sworn trust by his countrymen and intimate colleagues. What are the sources of such scission? How does the spirit mask itself?

  George Steiner

  Men, Thinking, Drawing

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.191, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I never drink coffee, can you believe that? Works in morning television, doesn't drink coffee.

  Willie Geist

  Coffee, Believe, Television

  Source: on.today.com

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• I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible - it's the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o'clock during Lent. It's a totally negative, man-made religion.

  Chaka Khan

  Men, Class, Childhood

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At 3 o'clock in the morning on tour when you're sober is a lot less fun than 3 a.m. when you're drunk in a bar or in a nightclub. But having said that, 9 in the morning on tour sober is immeasurably better than 9 a.m. on tour when you're hung over and feeling like death.

  Moby

  Fun, Drunk, Feelings

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• I was a big TV kid.When I was a kid, I would go home at 3:00 and watch TV straight through to the end of Letterman at 1:30 in the morning.I was obsessed with comics.And I would watch Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno and study them as if it was Tolstoy.

  Judd Apatow

  Kids, Home, Tvs

  "A Conversation with Director Judd Apatow". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

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• Little girls do not wake up in the morning and say "I dream of being a prostitute." It is a terrible, terrible life. Body invasion is more traumatic than even getting beaten up. In certain circumstances, obviously, it may be a way to survive.

  Gloria Steinem

  Girl, Dream, Wake Up

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

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• Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone - all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.

  Albert Camus

  Yield, Waiting, World

  "Lyrical and Critical Essays (Letter to P.B.)". Book by Albert Camus, 1967.

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• Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take liberated flight toward the morning skies --Who hovers over life and understands without effort The language of flowers and voiceless things!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Flower, Men, Sky

  Charles Baudelaire (2013). “Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language Book”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• There is also the fact that NORAD-Northeast was conducting war game exercises that morning, a fact that has been very little talked about and certainly not reported to the general public. What's also not been reported, according to the information that I have, at least one of the scenarios they were considering in their war game exercises concerned hijacked aircraft being crashed into buildings. Now, this could explain the lack of response when the air traffic controllers began to report that four planes were off course.

  Jim Marrs

  War, Exercise, Air

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• Imma go to Starbucks in the morning for some coffee, if it ain't no girls there i won't buy no damn coffee!

  Lil B

  Girl, Coffee, Starbucks

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• If you can't drink a lobbyist's whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don't belong in politics.

  Brian Redman

  Sleep, Lobbyists, Whiskey

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• I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardee's.

  Joni Ernst

  Lines, Biscuits

  Joni Ernst's Republican Response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2015.

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• But I love that feeling of utter depletion: It is an ecstatic sense of having committed myself to the absolute limit. But after recharging at night, I'm ready to go the next morning. Isn't that what life is all about?

  George Lois

  Night, Feelings, Limits

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• What I ate for breakfast on school mornings was one buttered roll--a soft roll, not a hard roll--and one cup of cocoa; any attempt to alter this menu I regarded as a plot to poison me.

  Esther Hautzig

  School, Plot, Poison

  Esther Hautzig (2002). “The endless steppe: with connections”, Holt McDougal

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• George Brett could roll out of bed on Christmas morning and hit a line drive.

  John Schuerholz

  Bed, Lines, Christmas Morning

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• Know this: you can start over, each morning.

  Tyler Joseph

  Starting Over, Knows

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• Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.

  Bruce Lee

  Writing, Blank Mind, Class

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• We tell the for-profit sector, 'Spend, spend, spend on advertising until the last dollar no longer produces a penny of value,' but we don't like to see our donations spent on advertising in charity. Our attitude is, 'Well look, if you can get the advertising donated (at four o'clock in the morning) I'm okay with that, but I don't want my donation spent on advertising, I want it to go to the needy,' as if the money invested in advertising could not bring in dramatically greater sums of money to serve the needy.

  Dan Pallotta

  Attitude, Dollars, Looks

  "Do We Have The Wrong Idea About Charity?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 17, 2013.

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• I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient that might sully the familiar picture of childhood innocence. Ah, these good, efficient, healthy-minded people, they always remind me of those optimistic tadpoles who bask in a puddle in the sun, in the shallowest of waters, crowding together and amiably wriggling their tails, totally unaware that the next morning the puddle will have dried up and left them stranded.

  Carl Jung

  Optimistic, Men, Order

  "Memories, Dreams, Reflections". Book by Carl Jung, recorded and edited By Aniela Jaffe, translated by Richard and Clara Winston, p. 14, archive.org. 1963.

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• In a dream thou mayst live a lifetime, and all be forgotten in the morning: Even such is life, and so soon perisheth its memory.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Life, Dream, Memories

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Proverbial philosophy”, p.150

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• In the morning of life, before its wearisome journey, The youthful soul doth expand, in the simple luxury of being; It hath not contracted its wishes, nor set a limit on its hopes; The wing of fancy is unclipped, and sin hath not seared the feelings: Each feature is stamped with immortality, for all its desires are infinite, And it seeketh an ocean of happiness, to fill the deep hollow within.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Ocean, Simple, Journey

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• Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Typewriters, Staring, Turns

  "Church Times" Newspaper, December 30, 1983.

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• The days of life are consumed, one by one, without an object beyond the present moment; ever flying from the ennui of that, yet carrying it with us; eternally in pursuit of happiness, which keeps eternally before us. If death or bankruptcy happen to trip us out of the circle, it is matter for the buzz of the evening, and is completely forgotten by the next morning.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Pursuit Of Happiness, Circles

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.95

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