Famous Quotes

"But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns."

Harriet Ann Jacobs on Morning

More quotes about Morning

• "Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day."

  Dalai Lama on Morning

• "When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

  Marcus Aurelius on Morning

• "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Morning

• "If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first."

  Mark Twain on Morning

• "Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it."

  Kevyn Aucoin on Morning

More quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs

• "There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment."

• "I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."

• "Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name."

• "There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious."

• "The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."