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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.

For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator.

Quotes by Cheryl Hines

I don't want to give the illusion that one day God came down and I was healed.

Quotes by Cheryl James

They are very healthy. Yes, they were sucking and breathing on their own and everything when they came out. So there was no need to stay in the hospital. So we took them home the next day.

Quotes by Cheryl Tiegs

Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.

Quotes by Chesley Sullenberger

I always feel guilty for having a day off because I feel like I'm not being productive.

Quotes by Cher Lloyd

The day after 'X-Factor' ended, I was in the studio with Will.I.Am.

Quotes by Cher Lloyd

Indeed, in a world of the BlackBerry, remote access and Wi-Fi hotspots on every street corner, it feels particularly outdated that much of our working culture is still dominated by the need to be at our desk for long hours...

Quotes by Cherie Blair

I can't hurt any more than I've been hurt, I can't cry any more than I've cried. I've been to the highest of highs and lowest of lows, so one day I'm going to find my middle ground and be...

Quotes by Cheryl Cole

I drive a Range Rover almost every day, but my favorite is my '69 SS Camaro.

Quotes by Chauncey Billups

Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.

Quotes by Cheech Marin

So what's really behind the 'English Only' Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn something different. Heaven forbid they would have to learn something new.

Quotes by Cheech Marin

At the end of the day, it not only doesn't make logical sense to deny licenses to undocumented immigrants, it doesn't make financial sense.

Quotes by Cheech Marin

Chicanos and running water are endlessly fascinating. I can watch them all day.

Quotes by Cheech Marin

My husband and I own a CrossFit Gym. Crossfit is perfect for me because it's always competitive, all the workouts are in a class environment, and it's different every day. It's a constantly varied functional fitness workout done with intensity.

Quotes by Chelan Simmons

I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. government could listen in on phone conversations or read private mail without first obtaining a warrant from a court. That sounds more like something that happened in the Soviet Union.

Quotes by Chellie Pingree

I live on an island, and my community is served by a ferry that goes three times a day.

Quotes by Chellie Pingree

Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.

Quotes by Chelsea Clinton

Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'

Quotes by Chelsea Clinton

Running is my prophylactic stress relief for the day. Or the segue so that I can go home and be with my husband in a kind of clearheaded way.

Quotes by Chelsea Clinton

My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.

Quotes by Chelsea Clinton

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.