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Quotes About Morning

Mr. Lecky could see well enough to eat. He brought his chair over and sat down gratefully while he consumed, but with appetite now, the ham and biscuits which he had disdained in the morning. Even the fact that he was using to cut his ham the knife which had cut a human throat did not disturb him. He had taken care to see that the blade was wiped clean.
~ James Gould Cozzens
I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.
~ James Herriot
A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.
~ James Herriot
At times it seemed unfair that I should be paid for my work; for driving out in the early morning with the fields glittering under the first pale sunshine and the wisps of mist still hanging on the high tops.
~ James Herriot
I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons.
~ James Inhofe
Hair of the dog and to keep me company I made a drink.
~ James Kirkwood Jr.
The morning sleeper Has much undone The quick will catch the prize.
~ James L. Nelson
The unwise man is awake all night, and ponders everything over; when morning comes he is weary in mind, and all is a burden as ever. Hávamál
~ James L. Nelson
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee."1
~ James MacDonald
Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.
~ James Patterson
At the very least, people who get subsidies should have to get up in the morning and do something, even if it's a make work job. But most liberals would oppose even this simple test of responsibility.
~ James R. Cook
This is what people are talking about when they use words like grace. That moment, that morning, came vividly back to him whenever he thought of it. But soon suspicion set in. He understood well enough that life by very definition is upset, movement, agitation.
~ James Sallis
Six a.m., first light of dawn, world stitching itself back together out there, reconstituting itself, as he looked on. Blink, and the warehouse across the way reemerged. Blink again, the city loomed in the distance, a ship coming hard into port.
~ James Sallis
Is it for miraclesWe live? I like it when the morning sun lights up my roomLike a yellow jelly bean, an inner glow. May mutters: "Whyask questions?" or, "What are the questions you wish to ask?"
~ James Schuyler
Karen, she's a silver sun. You best walk her way and watch it shining...watch her watch the morning come.
~ James Taylor
Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
~ James Thurber
morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable.
~ Donna Tartt
x. IT WAS EIGHT-THIRTY IN the morning by the time I got to storage, with a sore jaw from grinding
~ Donna Tartt
Three coffees, two with milk, please," said Francis to the fat woman behind the counter. "No milk, just Cremora." "Well, then, just black, I guess." He turned to us. "Have you seen the paper this morning?
~ Donna Tartt
The hedges and the acres and acres of lawn were covered in a network of spider web that caught the dew in beads so that it glistened white as frost.
~ Donna Tartt
though the darkness sometimes lifted just enough so I could construe my surroundings, familiar shapes solidifying like bedroom furniture at dawn, my relief was never more than temporary because somehow the full morning never came, things always went black before I could orient myself and there I was again with ink poured in my eyes, guttering around in the dark.
~ Donna Tartt
my shoes squelching on the dewy grass
~ Donna Tartt
It was six o'clock in the morning, and the sun was rising over the mountains, and the birches, and the impossibly green meadows; and to me, dazed with night and no sleep and three days on the highway, it was like a country from a dream.
~ Donna Tartt
Are you always up this early? Almost always. It's beautiful here, but morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable.
~ Donna Tartt