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Quotes About Sleep

Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to be hunted down and forced to watch hours of educational televison without the aid of caffine.
~ Heather Brewer
I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.
~ Fran Lebowitz
I really struggle to get up in the morning, but I also get my best ideas really late at night, when I'm trying to sleep.
~ Nina Nesbitt
I like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.
~ Grace Jones
She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.
~ Susan Sontag
Chiron insisted that we talk about the Labyrinth in the morning which is like 'Hey, your life's in mortal danger. Sleep tight!
~ Rick Riordan
I try to get plenty of sleep every single night so that I wake up each morning feeling fully rested. That is one of the most important practices for someone who wants to lead a healthy lifestyle.
~ Josie Ho
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
~ Kate Chopin
I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning.
~ Mario Cantone
I am a sleeper. When you wake up at 4:30 in the morning to do a workout, you're sleepy at 8 in the evening. By 10 o'clock at the latest, I'm in bed.
~ Michelle Obama
His stories are good to hear at night, because we can dream about them asleep; and good in the morning, too, because then we can dream about them awake. (Cowslip)
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker. [Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.]
~ Ovid
...careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
~ Victor Hugo
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts - Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be.
~ Starhawk
I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
~ Imelda Marcos
The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.
~ W. H. Auden
Like a child, the earth's going to sleep, or so the story goes. But I'm not tired, it says. And the mother says, You may not be tired but I'm tired
~ Louise Gluck
Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
~ Victor Hugo
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep; Rock me to sleep, mother; rock me to sleep.
~ Liz Chase
The watchful mother tarries nigh Though sleep have closed her infant's eye, For should he wake, and find her gone.
~ John Keble
I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.
~ Bill Walton
He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.
~ Fred Allen