Rise and Shine Quotes

“I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.”
― Anna Quindlen, Rise and Shine

“Nearly everyone I meet expresses deep sympathy about the fact that I have never married. Sometimes I wonder why.”
― Anna Quindlen, Rise and Shine

“The rituals surrounding vacations among Manhattan's wealthiest and best-connected citizens are strange and specific. By vacations I don't mean country houses, which are part of the regular ebb and flow of life and which are frequently subjects for complaint - The kids never want to go! The caretaker missed the roof leak! The pipes froze! - as though having a six-thousand-square-foot, cedar-shingled cottage on five acres overlooking the ocean is nothing more or less than a constant test of character.”
― Anna Quindlen, Rise and Shine

“kitchen with the window means we have finally arrived at some precarious level of prosperity.”
― Anna Quindlen, Rise and Shine

“as though I had been flat water and now I was carbonated.”
― Anna Quindlen, Rise and Shine

“It sounded so promising. As if this would be the day. The day to ride a bike without training wheels. To make it through the afternoon without a stained blouse and a scolding. To persuade the girl next door to like me. To meet a man. To make a mint. To prosper. To love. To live fearlessly.”
― Anna Quindlen, Rise and Shine

“New York is the biggest little small town in America.”
― Anna Quindlen, Rise and Shine

“the master bedroom with the cherry chest at the foot of the bed that holds the television, which rises up out of the chest at the touch of a bedside button.”
― Anna Quindlen, Rise and Shine

“I don't even have a dog. I tell people I'm allergic so they won't think less of me. Instead I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of responsibility required.”
― Anna Quindlen, Rise and Shine