Start of the Day Quotes

Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table.

This face. What is it like to wake up to this face?

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.

Traditionally, wake-up calls are meant to wake you up rather than send you to sleep: the clue is in the wording. But those who talk of wake-up calls tend to have an easy-going way with words.

The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.

The hardest part of the day is all the stuff after I open my eyes in the morning.

Wakin' up to find another day. The moon got lost again last night, but now the sun has finally had its say.

In the morning, my alarm clock is a chorus of lemurs yelling!

We wake up and pinch ourselves most days.

Breakfast is a big deal. I love it.

I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.

Today. This bright new day that awaits us

I drink a pint of water every morning when I wake up.

Because it is morning, it is morning, and there is so much to see.