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Day Quotes

Lines on routine, duty and the shape of an ordinary day.

These quotes span a wide range of daily experience: actors describing the grind of read-throughs and reshoots, and reflections on the discipline service members carry with them off duty as well as on. For more on the rhythm of daily life, see our Day-To-Day Life quotes.

This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.

Quotes by John Glenn

I spend all day in museums. I even eat my lunch in the museum, and I take a nap for one hour there.

Quotes by John Gokongwei

I'm a working-class former apprentice electrician; at the age of 14, if you'd told me I would one day be standing on a stage with Mel Brooks, I'd have thought you were off your head. But these things can happen.

Quotes by John Gordon Sinclair

We grew up in Alaska and will rep The North Face all day long.

Quotes by John Gourley

We went to Japan and stayed an extra day just to go shopping. New York is one of those places where we never get that. If we're there, we're working.

Quotes by John Gourley

I've never been the type of person that puts things on a shelf or, like, needs to clean my sneakers every day. I just wear what I like.

Quotes by John Gourley

Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.

Quotes by John Garamendi

Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may seem nothing else but a verifying of the said prophecy.

Quotes by John Foxe

We grew up in my family thinking that politics was a really fascinating way to spend one's career and a way to be involved in the issues of the day. And certainly, my father and my relatives really loved all...

Quotes by John F. Kennedy Jr.

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

Quotes by John Fiske

While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.

Quotes by John Engler

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Quotes by John F. Kennedy

The day breaks not, it is my heart.

Quotes by John Donne

The last four years have not diluted the memory or weakened the resolve of our citizens. Four years later, our hearts still hurt for the families whose loved ones were murdered that day.

Quotes by John Doolittle

The primary thing writing and basketball share is the sense that each time you go out, each time you play or begin a piece, it's a new day. You can score 40 points one game, but the next game, those...

Quotes by John Edgar Wideman

Mother's Day is a welcome event in partisan times. Nearly everyone agrees that we should show mothers gratitude.

Quotes by John Dickerson

A campaign gives you focus. You wake up to a different hotel alarm clock every day, but you know your mission.

Quotes by John Dickerson

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Quotes by John D. Rockefeller

You can be addicted to meat, as far as I'm concerned. Why else would I eat six cheeseburgers a day?

Quotes by John Daly

Dutch food is terrible, I think. What sort of person starts the day with egg and cheese?

Quotes by John Cooper Clarke

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the theme connecting the quotes on this Day page?
The quotes gathered here touch on daily life and routine from different angles - one speaker reflects on being held accountable "twenty-four hours a day," and another describes the routine of a scene-by-scene read-through happening the day before filming, giving the page a loose, everyday-life throughline. For quotes centered specifically on daily routines, see Day-To-Day Life.
Do these quotes come from a specific field or background?
They span a few different worlds - one is a personal reflection on skin and diet changes since college, another discusses accountability among those serving in Iraq, and two more describe the day-to-day realities of working on film and TV sets.
Is there a quote here about filmmaking routines specifically?
Yes, one entry describes not having "the luxury of rehearsal time on most films," explaining that a scene-by-scene read-through often happens just before shooting rather than well in advance.
What about quotes touching on imagination or escaping routine?
This page focuses more on grounded daily-life reflections, so if you're looking for quotes about mentally drifting away from the day-to-day, Daydream quotes might be a better fit.
How is this different from the Daybreak or Daylight pages?
This page's quotes are reflections tied to daily routine and experience in general, rather than the specific moment of morning or sunrise - for that, Daybreak and Daylight are the more focused pages.

Other related pages include our Daybreak quotes for morning-themed lines and Daydream quotes for something more imaginative.