One Day You Wake Up Quotes

#1. Angel, you got checkout girls in these here grocery stores cain't feed their own kids right, jazz musicians workin' for the post office because music don't pay the charge of admission to a nightclub. You might love your work but one day you wake up and find that your work don't love you.

Walter Mosley

#2. You don't. It doesn't work. One day, you wake up, and you've learned how to store it, and you go to another part of the heart.

Sandra Bullock

#3. You never quite know what the change is until, one day, you wake up and go, "Wow, I'm reacting to things differently and I feel differently."

Sandra Bullock

#4. One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered ... I'm going to put a mask on and scrawl my name across the face of the world, build cities of gold, come back and stomp this place flat, until even the bricks are just dust. So you can just shut up. All of you. I'm going to move the world.

Austin Grossman

#5. That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown.

Sophie Kinsella

#6. Your ups and downs in sports, I think they are as normal as daily life: One day you wake up and feel great, the next day you wake up and feel maybe less great.

Michael Schumacher

#7. Oh, September. My best girl. I shall tell you an awful, wonderful, unhappy, joyful secret: It is like that for everyone. One day you wake up and you are grown. And on the inside, you are no older than the last time you thought Wouldn't it be lovely to be all Grown-Up right this second?

Catherynne M Valente

#8. Keep Moving ...
Move forward
Let go
Give in
Decide
and just Do
Progress every day
And make one step forward no matter what's in your way
Keep moving, till one day you wake up and you're there.

Emma Daley

#9. Time just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I s'pose, is why one day you wake up suddenly and you ain't a boy any longer.

Robert Ruark

#10. And at first it's okay, you know, not perfect, but okay, and you get used to it. Then it gets a little worse, and you get used to that, too. Then one day, you wake up and you don't have the first freakin' clue how it got that bad.

Patrick Ness

#11. It must be very hard to be a mother. All those years of knowing everything about your daughter, of dressing her and bathing her and being intimately acquainted with her every need and want, and then one day you wake up and realize you don't even know what kind of dress to buy her at Clery's.

Jessie Ann Foley

#12. One day you wake up and you realize something, you see something in a way that you never saw it before, and boom, epiphany. Something is different forever.

John Green

#13. Nightmares never last. one day you wake up and they're gone.

Akira Toriyama

#14. In many ways spiritual exercise is like physical exercise. If you stop exercising physically, your body may not show the results of inactivity for a while. But one day you wake up and find everything is sagging in all the wrong places.

Jim George

#15. One day you wake up and you decide you want to be different. You want a different life. You are tired of your old life. This is the truth. You will a change.

Frederick Lenz

#16. Isn't that the tragedy of growing up though? One day you wake up and realize that everything you are and everything you feel is not much different from what everyone else feels.

Nadine Rose Larter

#17. Strange how when you're young you have no memories ... Then one day you wake up and BOOM, memories overpower all else in your life, forever making the present moment seem sad and unable to compete with a glorious past that now has a life of its own.

Douglas Coupland

#18. I only know that one day you wake up and realize it doesn't hurt quite so much. Until then you can put yourself in the hands of God- He'll see you through. You can take it from someone who knows, dear. I've found his hands to be an easy place to rest.

Ann Tatlock

#19. I thought if I were beautiful enough, all my dreams would come true. But you don't steady beautiful forever; one day you wake up and it's gone, and then where are you? Dreams are made with blood and sweat and tears.

Ryu Murakami

#20. The ants are bad" The Bear
"the ants?"Tahir
"Do not be fooled. They look very small, so harm you don't think of then at all. Then years. Then one day you wake up, and your home has fallen down." Osman.

Tahir Shah

#21. You know how it is- you get used to something, people rely on you, one day you wake up and you can't tell Tuesday from Thursday. You're doing the same boring stuff.

Mitch Albom

#22. It's difficult to know when love blooms; suddenly one day you wake up and it's in full flower. It works the same way when it wilts - one day it is just too late.

Fredrik Backman

#23. There's a moment where Jobs says that one day you will wake up and realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you. I want people to believe that; we're so often bound by obstructions and judges.

Joshua Michael Stern

#24. Too many choices, that's the problem. Sometimes you get to a point, you know?"
She looked at his face. His eyes seemed distant. "What do you mean?"
He shook his head. "You wake up one day and nothing's the same. It's like you're in the wrong life or something. I don't know how to explain it.

Elizabeth Brundage

#25. You're going to wake up one day, and you're gonna realize he's moved on. He'll quit trying to win you back. And you'll regret it. And if there's anything The Plague taught me, it's that there isn't time for regret anymore.

Kirby Howell

#26. You don't just wake up one day and decide who you are. I hope that people see that it's okay not to have labels nor label anyone else. Step back. We're all just trying to figure it out.

Rita Volk

#27. It's going to suck for a long time. Then, one day you'll wake up and it will suck a little less. And just when you thought the worst was over, you'll see something, or smell something, and it will flatten you all over again. That's what's going to happen, babe.

Nat Russo

#28. Apathy.

The reason you may wake up one day being not only a 2nd class citizen, but a criminal because of who you are - and then wonder why 'somebody' didn't do something when there was still time?

Christina Engela

#29. That was the frightening part about believing in things. You could wake up one day and it could all be gone.

Janet Fitch

#30. Vincent to Kate: The day I stop seeing you as one of the strongest people I know is the day I wake up human.

Amy Plum

#31. You don't know what's behind that smile. You can't imagine who someone will turn out to be. We assume the sun will rise every morning just because it has done every other day, but what happens when you wake up to darkness? When you open your eyes and find, today is the one different day? I

Abigail Haas

#32. When we look at what has the strongest statistical relationship to overall evaluation of your life, the first one is your career well-being, or the mission, purpose and meaning of what you're doing when you wake up each day.

Tom Rath

#33. One day, you and I are gonna wake up and be alright. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but one day. One day. I promise you.

Fisher Amelie

#34. If I wake up one day and people tell me I'm not sexy, I'm not going to stop making good music and having fun. That 'sex symbol' thing is typically part of being in the limelight. You better be very talented in your music, but it's good to be nice to look at, I guess.

Luke Bryan

#35. Imagine you're visiting a place where there's little to no English spoken and you wake up one day to find that the group you went with has all gone home and you are left there alone.

Kim De Blecourt

#36. Good advice is hard to find and even harder to accept. Accept it anyway. One day, you'll wake up and wish you had done it sooner.

Kevin Breel

#37. I'm not one who can get by on six hours sleep night after night. You can see it on my face and hear it in my voice. When working 14-hour days, I have to go home, go to sleep, and wake up in time for crew call. I hate naps. They throw me off the rest of the day.

Anna Kendrick

#38. Boobs are like boyfriends. You go around wishing for them and trying to figure out what you have to do to get them, and worrying about all the things you're probably doing wrong, and then one day, who knows why, you wake up and find you've got more than you wanted.

Pamela Todd

#39. When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.

Sydney Smith

#40. One day you will wake up & there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

Paulo Coelho

#41. It's just that, time goes by way too fast. If you're not careful you can let years go by without accomplishing any of the things you thought you'd accomplish. That's my biggest fear. That I'll wake up one day and wonder where it all went.

Reeni Austin

#42. I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.'

David Brock

#43. There's the false security of feeling a great force of love from your audience one day and then the next morning you wake up and you're exhausted, and that love is something you have to reach for the next day.

Lisa Gerrard

#44. You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.

Robin Wasserman

#45. You wake up one day and you realize that all these years have gone by and I have this mortgage and I have this couch and I have this life and ... is this going to be my prison?

Lynn Shelton

#46. Authentic gratitude is a way of life. When you wake up in the morning let your first thought be one of thanksgiving that you have another day to walk in the love of God. As you go through your day, see the Giver behind all of the gifts freely being given to you.

Michael Beckwith

#47. If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."

Robin Williams

#48. Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day
you wake up and you're someplace you don't want to
be, with someone you realize you don't know.

Danielle Steel

#49. You know that feeling when you wake up in the morning and you're excited for the day? That's one of my main goals in life.

Kirsten Dunst

#50. And I know we live in different worlds, and we're always really busy, but in my dreams you spin around me so fast, I always wake up dizzy.

So maybe one day you'll grow tired of the road and roll on back to me.

Sarah Kay

#51. I very often wake up at two in the morning with my stomach going over. Sometimes it's difficult to work out why - it's all the things you've put to one side during the day.

Billie Whitelaw

#52. If you really love someone,' Claudia continued, 'you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you hope that one day they get a wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons.

Graeme Simsion

#53. One day you just wake up and discover that you got old while you were sleeping.

Jonathan Tropper

#54. I don't think anyone can understand what's happening. Something like this is so rare. It's a mix of chance and coincidence. You wake up one day and you're suddenly a star.. Really weird. All of a sudden everyone knows who you are while you haven't changed one bit

Robert Pattinson

#55. All the days that you wake up you have one job and that's to get better, every single day.

Derrick Rose

#56. You were bred for humanity and sold to society. One day you'll wake up in the present day, a million generations removed from the expectations of being who you really want to be.

Jethro Tull

#57. Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don't say "I'll never be good". You can become better! and one day you'll wake up and you'll find out how good you actually became.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#58. $86,400 USD is actually the amount of seconds we all have in a day if 1 sec is equal to 1 dollar. That amount of seconds God credits to each and every one of us daily. But when you go to bed it is wiped out and you get another one credited to you when you wake up.

Sunday Adelaja

#59. You know those day you sometimes have? The days that seem totally ordinary when you wake up, but by the time you go to sleep that night, your whole life is divided into before that day and after that day? This is one of those days.

G. Willow Wilson

#60. Each day when you wake up you have a choice: You can have a good day, or you can have a bad day. So you might as well have a good one.

Christy Jordan

#61. You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

Joni Mitchell

#62. You go through life doing all the things everyone else wants you to do, and you'll wake up one day realizing your life's passed you by and you've got a list of stuff you've never gotten to do.

Charlie Donlea

#63. Wake up! No one is going to save you. No one is going to take care of your family or your retirement. No one is going to "make things" work out for you. The only way to do so is to utilize every moment of every day at 10X levels.

Grant Cardone

#64. I'm sorry, I will not change what I am or pretend to be something else just so that you will like me. Why? Because I don't want to wake up one day and realize that everyone likes me...except me!

Brooke Hampton

#65. Reassuring thoughts have a funny way of getting stuck on repeat. Then you wake up one day and you can't remember where you put the last thirty years of your life.

S.A. Tawks

#66. Loving someone isn't a hard task, it's not a chore, you don't wake up one day and decide to break their heart because you got all hot and bothered, that doesn't happen! he boomed.

Holly Hood

#67. You'll wake up one day and find you're almost forty, and you haven't done any of the things you wanted. That you let in so many voices when you were trying to make decisions, instead of listening to the One voice that mattered, that you never decided anything at all.

Stephanie Morrill

#68. One day you may make wake up and think your all alone.
One day you may feel this house is not my home.
One day you may find that things around you have change.
But one thing for sure God still knows your first and last name.

E.R. Turner

#69. Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.

William H. Macy

#70. Somebody waits for the time I know will never come
You get yourself so high
Then you come down feeling blue
One day you'll wake up and realize you've had enough
There's a thousand shining moments
Waiting just to happen to you

Blue Rodeo

#71. Christine O'Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office. She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business. And what that sends to my generation is, one day, you can just wake up and run for Senate, no matter how [much] lack of experience you have.

Meghan McCain

#72. Some days I wake up and think, How did I get here? It's like one day, you just realize you're not young anymore, and you already made your choices, and now it's too late to change anything.

Kristin Harmel

#73. Try to have a good day today, wherever you are, whatever you do, whoever is near, if no one is near. Try to be happy, because you may not see tomorrow. There is someone this morning, who didn't wake up, who will never see this day. Try to feel lucky that this is not you.

Margaret Cho

#74. You're the one, princess. The reason I wake up with a smile on my lips. The reason it stays on my face all fucking day. When I hurry home from work, I'm hurrying back to you.

Elle Aycart

#75. I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, 'I can face it'. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.

Cecelia Ahern

#76. But when my grandmother saw me plucking [my eyebrows] she said: 'Don't. You will regret it. One day you will wake up with no eyebrows and think how stupid you were. Your eyebrows are the most beautiful thing about you.'

Natalia Vodianova

#77. The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

Alan Page

#78. ...And maybe one day you will wake up as an infant in a completely different universe, and your entire life thus far was just one big dream.

Criss Jami

#79. The thing about love is, you don't get to choose," Suze said.

"You just wake up one day and there it is, sitting at the foot of the bed, going 'nyah, nyah, gotcha,' and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

Jennifer Crusie

#80. The pain never goes away, Freya, but it becomes manageable. One day, you'll wake up and realize you can breathe a little easier than the day before. Until then, all you can do is lean on people closest to you... lean on me. I want you to.

Jessica Prince

#81. It was kind of unexpected, to wake up one day and realize that the things that you've worked so hard to accomplish, you've accomplished in so little an amount of time.

Colton Haynes

#82. Did you ever want something so deeply you were scared to let yourself have it? Like a desire so great you know you will never forgive yourself if you fail. So you hang back. And then you wake up one day and you realize if you don't do it now, it will move out of reach forever.

Nicole Mones

#83. Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day I'm gonna, though. You bet your ass, I will have a beret on. That's ridiculous, but it's true. I always fight with wearing a beret.

Mitch Hedberg

#84. You don't lose a partner you've been with for 30-odd years and just wake up one day with a smile.

Jacqueline Sauvageau

#85. You wake up one day and realise that your struggles and battles are your own and no one else s. And there is no one more capable to fight all the odds and enemies except you and you alone!

Tina Sequeira

#86. Fran laughed. I still feel like we're kids, but just pretending to be adults. I thought there would be this turning point where you would just wake up one day, and bam! You're mature!

Sean Kennedy

#87. Every day," I tell him, "you will miss me either a little less or a little more. Until one day you will wake up and realize you don't miss me at all, or you will find yourself incapable of living without me.

Megan Hart

#88. Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You're a superstar one day and wake up the next day and you're anonymous. To be successful in any way is beating the odds right now, I think.

Chad Kroeger

#89. Wake up each day with the glorious sensation of something to strive for and get one step closer to then, inspire another to do the same. You will NEVER have a bad day.

Carl Henegan

#90. America Singer, one day you will fall asleep in my arms every night. And you'll wake up to my kisses every morning.

Kiera Cass

#91. Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.

Rod Stewart

#92. One day I have to wake up and realize that you are gone.

Liv-Christine Hoem

#93. You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.

Jack Kerouac

#94. ...No matter what kind of morning you wake up to, one needs to get dressed and face it like it's going to be the best day of your life.

Heather Lyons

#95. I swear, kids don't grow a little every day. They save it up. One morning you wake up to a brand-new, much older kid.

Kelly Luce

#96. Nobody goes through life without having their heart broken and one day you'll wake up and it will be okay.

Alexa Chung

#97. You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

Bob Dylan

#98. It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'

Candis Cayne

#99. One day you'll wake up and find that the pain's still there but it doesn't hurt quite so much.

Sarra Manning

#100. You are not there, Father," I cried. "I wake up at Gaudlin Hall, I spend most of my day there, I sleep there at night. And throughout it all there is but one thought running through my mind."
"And that is?"
"This house is haunted.

John Boyne