Quotes about Morning
Was she asleep? He groped beside the bed, among his underclothes, for his wristwatch. He would soon learn, in undressing, to leave it lying discreetly visible. Its silent gold-rimmed face, a tiny banker's face, stated that he had already been out to lunch an hour and forty minutes. A sour burning began to revolve in his stomach.
- John Updike
By grounding yourself in mindfulness early in the morning, you are reminding yourself that things are always changing, that good and bad things come and go, and that it is possible to embody a perspective of of constancy, wisdom, and inner peace as you face any conditions that present themselves.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...
- Marcus Aurelius
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
- Wendell Berry
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
- Winston Churchill
If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.
- Proverbs 27:14
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
- Frank Sinatra
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working when you get up in the morning, and doesn't stop until you get to the office.
- Robert Frost
Your life shall hang in doubt before you; night and day you shall be in dread, and have no assurance of your life. In the morning you shall say: 'Would it were evening!' and at evening you shall say: 'Would it were morning!'" I have not found a place which sets forth the misery of a bad conscience so clearly, with such fitting and appropriate words and expressions.
- Martin Luther
But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.
- Psalm 59:16
Agendas are what get people, even historians, out of bed in the mornings, though one might hope that, once at the desk, they allow the data to challenge the hypotheses they have dreamed up overnight.
- NT Wright
But Paul's vision of God's love, rising here like the sun on a clear summer's morning, shines through all the detail that has gone before. You need to wake up early, to get out of bed, and to throw back the curtains, to see it; that's what the previous four chapters are about. But now that we have done all that, the view is here for us to enjoy. And to be dazzled by. God's love has done everything we could need, everything we shall need.
- NT Wright