"shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all." (All.)

Wake me up for breakfast, if I'm not dead.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who make the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety — best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just happens to be where you are in the universe to keep us from ever-darkness, to ease us with warm touching, to hold us in the great hands of light — good morning, good morning, good morning. Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

Why I Wake Early

Hello, sun in my face.

Hello, you who made the morning

and spread it over the fields

and into the faces of the tulips

and the nodding morning glories,

and into the windows of, even, the

miserable and the crotchety –

best preacher that ever was,

dear star, that just happens

to be where you are in the universe

to keep us from ever-darkness,

to ease us with warm touching,

to hold us in the great hands of light –

good morning, good morning, good morning.

Watch, now, how I start the day

in happiness, in kindness.

I would awake early, breakfast hurriedly under the tangerine trees already fragrant with the warmth of the early sun,

This morning I wake to be older than you were Fresh white snow for miles Every footstep will be mine.

You must awake others and make them arise and be alert. If you are always alert, this will be of great benefit to you. You will achieve happiness and you will be saved from the calamities, which are coming very soon.

... quickest way to spoil a friendship is to wake somebody up in the morning before he is ready.

Male or female, if my name were either Don or Dawn, I’d be up at sunrise to celebrate the glory that is me.

When I wake up in the morning, I’m thinking to myself: What can I do to be ready for that moment, which is coming? That propels me out of bed.

This is not my favorite way to wake up. My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.

You wake me up early in the morning to tell me that I'm right? Please wait until I'm wrong.

6080. Early to go to Bed, and early to rise, Will make a Man Healthy, Wealthy and Wise.