Quotes about morning
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“Our passion is our strength.
I dreamed that I pissed in my suitcase one time, I woke up in the morning and uh I had urine inside my suitcase.”

Billie Joe Armstrong (1972) American singer and guitarist

Dreams, Passion, Time

“Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God.”

Billie Joe Armstrong (1972) American singer and guitarist

God

“The singing legend lives on her suprabathams (morning prayer songs) and w:bhajansbhajans.”

M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916–2004) singer,Carnatic vocalist

Quoted in Ode to a Nightingale in "The Complete Guide to Functional Writing in English}, pages= 11-12
About M.S.

Singing

“I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never piss on a piece of stone at the fucking Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober. I mean I know I'm a fucking crazy-ass but still.”

Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter

MTV News Online, 1992.

Bad luck, Alcohol

“It is a matter of great shame that the birds wake up in the morning before you.”

Abu Bakr (573–634) First Muslim Caliph and a companion of Muhammad

Abdul Jaleel Qureshi, Hazrat Abu Bakr Nay Farmaya (Ferozesons, 2011), p.65)

Bird

“I am working from morning to evening, brimming with energy.. I'm fencing and wrestling with the sun. And what a sun it is! In order to paint here, one would need gold and precious stones. It is quite remarkable.”

Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter

Quote in a letter from Cote d'Azure to sculptor and friend Auguste Rodin, 1 February 1888; as cited in R. Gordon and A. Forge (1983), Monet, p. 123
1870 - 1890

Sun, Painting

“We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, one nation. And I promise you this. As the Bible says, “weep, ye may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.””

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

We will get through this together. Together. Look, folks, all my colleagues that I served with in the house and the senate up here, we all understand, the world is watching, watching all of us today. So here′s my message to those beyond our borders.America has been tested, and we′ve come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterday′s challenges, but today′s and tomorrow′s challenges.And we′ll lead not merely by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. We′ll be a strong and trusted partner for peace, progress, and security.
2021, January, Presidential Inaugural Address (2021)

Joy, Night

“Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?”

Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter

I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years! Now, some rare fly will fly over me, crap on my shoulder, and I'll drop dead, you know? My life story is a real-life story.
Launch.com, October 30, 1998

“No one goes to the stream early morning and comes back with dirty water.”

Dr. Manuel

Water

“Do you know what absolute happiness is? For me, it is to wake up my kids in the morning - these little pieces of innocence - to wake them and find they're so happy to see me! It is unequivocal love, no question about it.”

Michael Douglas (1944) American actor and producer

Love, Happiness, Question

“People think I wake up in the morning and put on a tuxedo.”

Bryan Ferry (1945) English musician

Source: 'People think I wake up in the morning and put on a tuxedo': Bryan Ferry reveals the truth about his life and career, DailyMail.com, November 26, 2009 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1231233/People-think-I-wake-morning-tuxedo-Bryan-Ferry-reveals-truth-life-career.html,

People, Thinking

“Say it is. Say it isn't.
Say it's someone else instead.
Say it's good when you don't like fishing.
You just knock it on the head.
You just knock it on the head.
Say goodbye. Say good morning.
Say good evening and good noon.
Say "Hello, tell me how you're feeling."”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

"Very well thanks and how are you?" "Say Goodbye" (song) Song lyrics Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Say Goodbye" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCLuE28J-WU (song on YouTube)

Feeling, Fish

“Good morning and look at the valedictorian
Scared of the future while I hop in the DeLorean
Scared to face the world, complacent career student
Some people graduate, but be still stupid”

Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter

Good Morning
Lyrics, Graduation (2007)

People, Stupidity, World, Future

“I woke up early this morning with a new state of mind,
A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns.
Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to God,
And keep your face to the rising sun. I feel like one day you'll understand me, dawg
You can still love your man and be manly, dawg”

Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter

Family Business
Lyrics, The College Dropout (2004)

Love, God, Way, Feeling

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”

Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American writer

School, Country

“Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.”

Ellen Kushner (1955) American writer

Source: Swordspoint

Winter

“I wanted to keep things as normal as possible for the trainees, so I led my usual morning class. I called it Magic Problem-Solving 101. The trainees called it Whatever Works.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

Problem

“Your photograph is all I have: it is with me from the morning when I wake up with a frantic half dream about you to the last moment when I think of you and of death at night.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Source: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

Death, Dreams, Thinking, Night

“The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“Three in the morning is never the time to try and sort out your life.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

Life, Time

“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”

William Blake book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 41

Thinking, Sleep, Night, Good Morning

“The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

Life, Lying, Parting

“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.”

Laurence Binyon book For the Fallen

"For the Fallen" (1914), fourth verse
'Condemn' is sometimes quoted as 'Contemn'. Both make sense in the context, but it was 'condemn' which was included in the first printing of the poem on page 9 of The Times of 21 September 1914. Binyon did not change it to 'contemn' when shown the proof of a later printing.

Age, Sun

“Ah, you fight like a sissy demon. (Takeshi)
Sissy demon? Have you ever met a sissy demon? (Savitar)
I killed three this morning. (Takeshi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Fight

“the next morning, fang and i broke up. now let me get this strait, i broke up with him. a split second after he broke up with me.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

“There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.”

Kate Chopin book The Awakening

Source: The Awakening (1899)

Hope, Night

“Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

Heart, Night

“The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth,--
The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Love, Death, Heart, Housing

“My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in the morning. Only 699 days and 7 class periods until graduation.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Smile

“Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day- like writing a poem or saying a prayer.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Gift from the Sea

Source: Gift from the Sea

Flowers, Sense

“One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug…”

Franz Kafka book The Metamorphosis

Source: The Metamorphosis

Dreams, Change

“If you in the morning
Throw minutes away,
You can't pick them up
In the course of a day.
You may hurry and scurry,
And flurry and worry,
You've lost them forever,
Forever and aye.”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

Silence, Night

“What does this mean? It means I get to spend the morning having the hair ripped off my body while Peeta sleeps in.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Sleep

“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim.”

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)

Water, Reading

“This morning the electricity came on for a few minutes, and when it did, Jonny said, "Hey, it's a black-on."
This is what passes for humor around here.”

Susan Beth Pfeffer book Life As We Knew It

Source: Life As We Knew It

“I wake up every morning and think: You know what would be good today? Not dying.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

Thinking

“You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can't alter.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

Source: I Am No One You Know: Stories

Thinking

“the courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Variant: the courage it took to get out of bed each
morning
to face the same things
over and over
was
enormous.
Source: You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense

Courage, Courageous

“Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Life, World, Star, Night

“She loved you in the morning because the day was new.”

Zadie Smith book The Autograph Man

Source: The Autograph Man

Love

“I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths". It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Name of the Star

Thinking

“Cinna just smiles. 'Had a damp morning?'
'You could wring me out,' I reply.
Cinna puts his arm around my shoulder and leads me into lunch. ' Don't worry, I always channel my emotions into my work. That way I don't hurt anyone but myself.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Smile, Way, Hurt

“Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation.”

Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves

Source: House of Leaves

“Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.”

Jerry Spinelli book Loser

Source: Loser

Secret, Thinking, Personality

“I held the feeling in my heart; the urge to discuss it died out. There was all the time in the world. In the endless repetition of other nights, other mornings, this moment, too, might become a dream.”

Banana Yoshimoto book Kitchen

Source: Kitchen

World, Dreams, Feeling, Time

“And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.”

Gary Paulsen book Hatchet

Source: Hatchet

Hope

“I swear if you cry, I'll kill you here and now.'
Cinna just smiles. 'Had a damp morning?'
'You could wring me out.' I reply”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Smile, Cry

“Morning always comes.”

Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist

“What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.”

Michael Cunningham book The Hours

Source: The Hours

Life, Imagination

“Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Light, Weather

“I woke up in the morning and I didn’t want anything, didn’t do anything, couldn’t do it anyway, just lay there listening to the blood rush
through me and it never made any sense, anything.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Sense

“People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Wall and Piece (2005)
Source: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall

Death, War, People

“Everything is exactly as it is for a reason.
The crumb on your table is
no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie,
it is there because you have chosen not to remove it.
No exceptions.”

Richard Bach book Messiah's Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul

Source: Messiah's Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul

“Every morning I walk like this around
the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Thinking, Heart, Dead

“It’s because of you when I’m in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Variant: It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.
Source: Norwegian Wood

Spring

“How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

People, World, Clothes

“In a single, silent moment, his rage, his fear, his humiliation and helplessness, had fallen away. That morning, he believed, he was a new creation. Softly, he wept.”

Laura Hillenbrand book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Fear, Rage

“Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
Source: The Essential Calvin And Hobbes

“Morelli beeped his truck unlocked. “If you’re looking for your rent-a-cop, I told Ranger you’d be with me this morning.”
“Did he make you take a blood oath that you’d protect me?”
“He asked me if I had adequate health insurance.”

Janet Evanovich book To the Nines

Source: To the Nines

Health

“Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don't do them anymore." Eve”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bite Club

Hell, Evil

“I'm young as morning
and fresh as dew.
Everybody loves me
and so do you.”

Maya Angelou book I Shall Not Be Moved

Source: I Shall Not Be Moved

Love

“Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa.
To the latecomers are left the bones.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Study

“The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other.
-Kheldar”

David Eddings book King of the Murgos

Source: King of the Murgos

Night

“It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.”

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Sun, Sea

“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”

Gertrude Stein book Tender buttons: objects, food, rooms

Source: Tender Buttons

Feeling

“Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning.”

Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf

Source: Cry Wolf

People

“Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.”

Karen Blixen book Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

Light, Heart, Drawing

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And one fine morning”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Light, Future

“Shades of a new morning standing still are worse than the shades of night. At least a person can understand the dark of night. It’s not fickle like the day.”

Sarah E. Wright (1929–2009) American writer

Source: This Child's Gonna Live

Understanding, Personality, Night

“Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Money, People, Sex

“This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning.”

Michael Ondaatje book Coming Through Slaughter

Source: Coming Through Slaughter

Tear, Night

“D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself?
Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers

Source: The Three Musketeers

Drink

“These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Night

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”

Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist

Books, Youth, Age, Light

“Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

“No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Thirst No. 3: The Eternal Dawn

Thinking

“Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.”

Cormac McCarthy book Suttree

Source: Suttree

“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

“No matter how you are feeling, get up every morning and prepare to let your light shine forth.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?

Feeling, Light

“Lies," Mr Solomon said the next morning as he walked into the classroom. "We tell them to our friends," he said. "We tell them to our enemies. And eventually… we tell them to ourselves.”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

“The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow beside my face and to see your eyes open in the morning when I lie next to you—just watching you, waiting for you to wake up.”

John Irving book Until I Find You

Source: Until I Find You

Lie, Waiting

“O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!" There is no speech nor language where this voice is not heard; but the bold, bad man heard it not. He woke with an oath and a curse. What to him was the gold and purple, the daily miracle of morning!”

Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin

Ch 36 Emmeline and Cassy
Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

Beauty, Chance

“Side by Side:
We sat side by side in the morning light & looked out at the future together.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Light, Future

“She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Mandarins

Source: The Mandarins

Love, Princess

“To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.”

Elizabeth David (1913–1992) British cookery writer

Source: An Omelette and a Glass of Wine

Pleasure, Tree, Sun

“Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.”

Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer

Angels

“I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.”

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

Source: Lonesome Dove

“It's four in the morning, the end of december
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

“Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.”

Andrew Solomon book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Heart

“no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Variant: It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Source: The Great Gatsby

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