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“My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father-that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning.”

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Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise; But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.”

Giving Father Hours Morning Sun Sky Sweet Flow Clouds Thee Waking Incense Rosy

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)

“I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn." The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.”

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Book:Gentle wilderness: the Sierra Nevada

Source: Gentle wilderness: the Sierra Nevada

“I think that at some point everybody turns into their mother or their father, it's just not normally from morning to afternoon.”

Thinking Mother Turns Father Morning Afternoon

Author:Kate Beckinsale

“So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.”

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Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful.”

Way Humor School Funny Father Morning Feet Shoes Snow Clock Every Morning

Author:Bill Cosby

“I like the lad who, when his father thought To clip his morning nap by hackneyed phrase Of vagrant worm by early songster caught, Cried, "Served him right! it's not at all surprising; The worm was punished, sir, for early rising!”

Father Morning Caught Phrases Rising Surprising Cried Worms Naps Lad Clip Vagrants

Book:The Poems: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poems: Complete in One Volume

“Father, show me how to praise Thee When I seek Thy courts to-day; Guide me by Thy love, and raise me -- Let me feel the words I say. Bless me on this hallowed morning, Bid my soul to Thee draw near; Teach me, and my heart shall listen -- Speak, Lord, and Thy child shall hear.”

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Author:Sarah Doudney

“They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father."”

Father Morning Atheism Positive Atheism Addresses Every Morning Eclipse

Book:Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

“In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His precious children.”

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Author:M. Russell Ballard

“Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.”

Book Father House Talking Morning Window Sat

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“I've always thought it would be fun to update "Hansel and Gretel." I'd have these white parents in the suburbs with an income of fifty or sixty thousand dollars. Daddy loses his job, and the wicked stepmother says, "We could get along, we could keep our Mastercharge, if you'd just get rid of those shitty kids." Finally the father hires a limo and tells the driver, "Drop 'em off on Lenox Avenue in Harlem at two in the morning." These two little white kids land there. They're menaced. And this supposedly nice black lady says, "Would you like some candy?"”