Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes.

Charles Dickens

The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again.

Charles Dickens

I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.

Charles Dickens

The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with red upon it that the sun had never give, and would never take away.

Charles Dickens

I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.

Charles Dickens

Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.

Charles Stanley

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

Alan Watts

The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.

Alan Watts

To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems to defy definition....Just as no one in his senses would look for the morning news in a dictionary, no one should use speaking and thinking to find out what cannot be spoken or thought.

Alan Watts

Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.

Alan Perlis

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Audre Lorde

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

Charles Horton Cooley

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

William Shakespeare

A flock of blessings light upon thy back

Carl Jung

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Billy Ray Cyrus

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

Dave Barry

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

Brian Tracy

Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.

David Ulevitch

Occasionally, I make waffles for breakfast for any employee who wants to talk to me. I make them around 8 A.M. as an incentive for people to show up early.

Bridgit Mendler

The best thing about waking up early is seeing the sun rise.

Adam Duritz

People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.

Anna Kournikova

God gives all to those, who get up early.

Rumi

Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?

Tibor Fischer

You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.

Marilu Henner

I like getting up early. I get up around five.

Jim Gaffigan

I don't know what's more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you're doing.

Fernando Pessoa

I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.