Quotes About Empty Seats

#1. What paper planes and empty seats most have in common
is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

Buddy Wakefield

#2. The holiday season can be an especially trying time for our service men, women, and families. Military service and deployment create empty seats at holiday tables, religious services, and celebrations.

Geoff Stults

#3. By 7:28, all the guests had arrived, and there were three empty seats: one for Eve, who had yet to show up, another for John, who would have a seat after he gave his daughter away, and a third that would remain empty, save for the ball of soft white yarn with two silver knitting needles in it.

Debra Anastasia

#4. Yount, who was an 18-year-old shortstop when he met Uecker, and is one of Bob's closest friends, noticed immediately that the event was held in the afternoon with only a smattering of media members on hand. "God, this unbelievable," Yount said. "Fifty thousand empty seats. What a ceremony.

Bill Schroeder

#5. My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.

Lamar Hunt

#6. It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.

James Richardson

#7. For a moment he considered running across the platform to tell people about the empty seats in the carriage, but he decided not to as something told him that if it didn't make Mother angry, it would probably make Gretel furious, and that would be worse still.

John Boyne

#8. As I sat in the sanctuary surrounded by thousands of empty seats, here's what became clear to me: it wasn't the size of the crowd Jesus cared about; it was their level of commitment.

Kyle Idleman

#9. Olympic organizers are reportedly struggling to fill rows and rows of empty seats. Empty seats! In fact, yesterday officials put out a casting call asking for 200 Europeans or eight Americans.

Conan O'Brien

#10. If I had a theme song it would probably be "B-Boys Makin' with the Freak Freak" by the Beastie Boys.

Teresa Medeiros

#11. Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.

Eve Ensler

#12. Welcome to the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona that is packed to capacity ... with some patches of seats left empty.

George Hamilton

#13. Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Mark Twain

#14. My name is Constance Marie, and I am anti-princess.

Constance Marie

#15. I fight myself. I don't fight to break Ali's record or Sugar Ray Robinson's record. I fight to please myself. I know in my heart where I'm rated. I didn't fight in Ali's era. This is my era.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#16. With all of the seats empty, you could pretend everyone's just gone to the bathroom.

Chuck Palahniuk

#17. Believe me when I say that some of the most amazing music in history was made on equipment that's not as good as what you own right now.

Jol Dantzig

#18. I, uh, I hit a tree."
"Well, I'm sure it had it coming.

Derek Landy

#19. I will eat grandfather for dinner.

Helen Keller

#20. Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of the journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty.

Dean Koontz