Porch Sitting Quotes

#1. Arizona Senator John McCain announced that he plans on running for a sixth term because he is concerned about the nation's security. He plans to help just like any other 80-year-old: by sitting on his porch with a police scanner.

Jimmy Fallon

#2. My son wouldn't go get heroin. If he did or didn't, it wouldn't have anything to do with whether it was legal or illegal.

Dave Barry

#3. Lucien was sitting on his front porch, drinking

John Grisham

#4. The aim was to regulate the value of money by increasing or diminishing the quantity of it. The effects of these measures appeared to provide an inductive proof of the correctness of this superficial version of the Quantity Theory, and incidentally concealed the weaknesses of its logic.

Ludwig Von Mises

#5. Fucked-up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional. (FINE)

Amy Reed

#6. I was at our beautiful home in Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at the ocean when I got a phone called and was asked, 'Would I like to do 'CSI'?' A week later, I'm at a coroner's office in Las Vegas, participating in a quadruple autopsy.

Ted Danson

#7. No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops ashore.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#8. We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent ... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#9. Life often is a bucket of water sitting on a farmer's porch. Our choice is in the drinking.

Harley King

#10. It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#11. Bucket
I feel so dreamy
dreamy lazy, crazy sleepy
like I want to be there
in the doorway, the doorway
or the porch corner
be sitting, be empty
notdoing not going
an old bucket left there
in the porch corner is like I am
an old empty bucket somebody left there.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#12. The rocking chair test." "Pretend that you're one hundred years old," Alicia would say, "and you're sitting out on your front porch in a rocking chair. Now think back on your life. What was it like? Do you have any regrets?

Suzanne Brockmann

#13. A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

Robert M. Gates

#14. For now there is only the darkness expanding and deepening, deepening into light; there is only this final peace, this consciousness of being no more separate, this illumination . . .

Aldous Huxley

#15. Sitting in Grandmother's old wicker chair and littering my porch with her foolish young life.

Wallace Stegner

#16. If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.

Gloria Steinem

#17. I'm an old-fashioned guy ... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

Johnny Depp

#18. Its true. Im a simple person. Some people tend to live from trauma to trauma, and that energizes them. I have a hectic schedule, but my mind seeks simplicity - like being in nature, a long bike ride, or sitting on the back porch.

Amy Grant

#19. Johnny James was sitting on the front porch, sipping from a glass of gasoline in the December heat, when the doom-screamer came.

Robert McCammon

#20. Hillary's trying to appear downhome. Earlier today she was sitting on the front porch of a general store whittling a pantsuit.

David Letterman

#21. Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.

Abraham Lincoln

#22. It isn't August. The moon is asleep and I'm sitting on my porch roof like a frozen gargoyle, wondering if the sun is going to blow off the world today and sleepin.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#23. So you dare tell me who to be

Sara Bareilles

#24. Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Jimmy Carter

#25. One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.

James Earl Jones

#26. In business you must give something back.

Donald Trump

#27. Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a happy graveyard.

Kim Harrison

#28. Black is an old wrinkled-face queen sitting on a porch while rocking away her last days, thinking of her grandchildren
Black is the old lady's grandchildren yelling "Revolution!" so that their grandmother would die free

Umar Bin Hassan

#29. When you meet the girl who'll be sitting on the front porch holding your hand when you're eighty, you don't let a thing like cool dismissive looks, big brothers, or fucking rules stand in your way.

Jen Frederick

#30. It is important to have a circle of Christians friends, which I do have.

Cliff Richard