Porch Light Quotes

#1. You got to tell me the brave captain
Why are the wicked so strong?
How do the angels get to sleep
When the devil leaves the porch light on?

Tom Waits

#2. When you keep the porch light on for the prodigal child, you do what God does every single moment.

Max Lucado

#3. Moths flitted in the porch light, pinging against the bulb, helplessly drawn to something they could never have.

Jamie Ford

#4. Cancer walked all over my father, in large part because he opened the door, turned on the porch light, and invited it in heartily
You old bastard! Come in and have a vodka tonic!

Dave Eggers

#5. My neighbours porch light flickered on. My eyes darted down the street.
"Can we go inside before someone calls the police?" I asked.
"I am the police," Nathan reminded me.

Elicia Hyder

#6. I moved into an all-electric house. I forgot and left the porch light on all day. When I got home the front door wouldn't open.

Steven Wright

#7. People were drawn to her the way a moth clings to a porch light, and I was the most hypnotized of all.

Brielle A. Marino

#8. The porch light came on and Aunt B swung the door open. Middle-aged and stout, with graying hair rolled into a bun, she looked like she should be baking cookies, not ruling a brood of social deviants with a penchant for hysterical laughter and kinky sex.

Ilona Andrews

#9. Civilization is what makes you sick.

Paul Gauguin

#10. In the Shao Lin temple, they never allow you to touch the skin of a drum until you can tongue what you're going to play.

Dick Dale

#11. With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

Lee Krasner

#12. Her mind was still tiptoeing along the boundary of consciousness, in that state of semi-waking that spins threads between dream and real, and for a moment she felt herself to be a girl who has come down off a porch to confront a great darkness with a tiny light.

Laini Taylor

#13. The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.

J.C. Ryle

#14. I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.

Billy Crystal

#15. If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.

Jeff Bezos

#16. The instant of petrified violence that sometimes foreruns a summer storm saturated the hushed yard, and in the unearthly tinseled light rusty buckets of trailing fern which were strung round the porch like party lanterns appeared illuminated by a faint green inward flame.

Truman Capote

#17. Heaven is a house with porch lights.

Ray Bradbury

#18. It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#19. We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching.

Lloyd Bridges

#20. When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future

Aberjhani

#21. I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.

Luther Allison

#22. Franny looked at them up on the porch, everyone softened by the veil of the screen, by the light that was slanting in behind them, by the bank of yellow lilies that separated them from her. It was not unlike seeing tigers at the zoo.

Ann Patchett

#23. What is the English for 'Refreshing towelette'?

Mary Wakefield

#24. I licked my sugary, lemonade-soaked lips and leaned my head against the porch post. The sky was bluer than the ocean- a light, jewel-toned blue. What would it be like to wear a necklace made of sky stones? I tossed the idea around in my mind, smiling to myself.

Rachel Coker

#25. I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.

Zac Goldsmith

#26. The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#27. She had resolved to never take another step backward.

Kate Chopin

#28. Kiss me, babe."'
"No, really." Beneath the light of a sixty-watt bulb on her porch, Adele Harris placed a hand on the chest of her latest date. "I've had enough excitement for one night.

Rachel Gibson

#29. Nothing soulful is birthed from force.

Cheryl Richardson

#30. I walked through the house to the back porch and found the screen door covered top to bottom, side to side, with cats meowing for food ... They were so thick on the door I could barely see the light between them.

Earl B. Russell

#31. So much for the bimbo alert; if she read books like that, then there was a light on upstairs, above the splendid front porch.

C.I. Dennis

#32. His grandparents had a light on, on their front porch, and Eleanor's face caught every bit of it. She looked like she should be married to the man in the moon.

Rainbow Rowell

#33. They stood on the porch in the fading light, Jack in the middle, his left arm around Danny's shoulders and his right arm around Wendy's waist. Together they watched as the decision was taken out of their hands.

Stephen King

#34. And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the un-forgiven. We never sold our windpipes to make a living. We were the letters sent to the wrong address, but opened anyway. We opened anyway.

Andrea Gibson

#35. I've never yet met a person who didn't want to be appreciated ...

Mary Kay Ash