"Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters."
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"The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded."
"I woke up one morning, and all of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates"."
"My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust."
"My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers."
"This gardener will be out in the very early morning and from late afternoon, attentive to small changes in the quality of light and the atmosphere, as well as to every nuance of the season, which combine to create perfection."
"Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, 'Do I really need this?' And I drag myself to the gym in my garage. It's not fun. I hate it. I work out alone. Weights."
"In the morning I stand up, scratch a little bit, then I light a candle and I meditate. Every morning. I've been meditating for maybe 20 years. I meditate so I can make choices; so I'm not a sheep all the time. So I can see better than what everyone else is doing."
"I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind."
"What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly?"
"I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily."
"To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life."
"When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl."
"I needed to put something together that would continually get me up at 4:30 in the morning, get me to work and get me excited to throw on those costumes - which clearly continue to excite me, if you are a viewer of the show - and circumstances that continue to surprise me and ask me to go places acting-wise that I haven't explored before."
"Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage."
"Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God."
"Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?"
"Building a better you is the first step to building a better America."
"The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet… From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything."
"Life whispers to you all the time...from the time you wake up in the morning and with every single experience."