#woke

Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids. ↗

— Herschel Walker

#because #come #early #everyone #family

There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#also #eight #freedom #i #morning

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.' ↗

— Steven Wright

#asked #did #few #girlfriend #good

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together. ↗

— David Guterson

#author #away #beyond #change #figure

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#awoke #book #boredom #dreamed #dull

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning. ↗

— D. L. Hughley

#be happy #happy #how #least #matter

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#axis #morning #one morning #september #world

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty. ↗

— George Byron

#dreamt #duty #found #i #life

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#bits #children #discovered #forgot #i

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#between #day #disappointing #fear #feeling