Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I like that, in the mornings, I can wake up, take my dog, and go grab coffee and a bagel, then bring back a box to my wife. I like that. I don't want anything else or need anything. I have a great wife and a great life.

I used to wake up in the morning and say, 'Oh, God.' Now I wake up in the morning and look forward to life.

If you're good, you'll get work. And if I've got food in my fridge and clothes on my back, I'll be happy.

I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!

I wake up every day and I think, 'I'm breathing! It's a good day.'

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day has already lost a lot of its promise.

A good night's sleep is always the best way to wake up and go to work.

I live a pretty simple life.

It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different.

There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they don't dread... I'm very lucky.

I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy.

I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.

I find pleasure in things that are simple.

I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can't lose sight of the little things in life that should make us the happiest.

I wake up at 4:15 A.M., get some coffee, turn on the news, see what's happening, go clickety-clack on the web to see what I missed overnight. Then I go to the gym, around 5:15, and I do what appears to be a very light workout, but who cares. I'm socializing with other nice people at the gym. Then I go into work, and I'm really awake.

Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings, apparatus and libraries without him.

Every day, I like to wake up and remind myself to be grateful of the simple things.

I wake up every day and count blessings.

I gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioning and ready to go. But, the only thing is everything just goes back to gridlock so fast once I sit down, 'cause you know you go to work again.

It's not like I wake up and think, 'Now I'm going to go to work.' It just feels like a continuing exploration.

I just tell myself I gotta get up at 8 A.M. I don't even use an alarm clock.

For me, keeping it simple is the best way to live life, to not complicate things, to sort of keep things in perspective.