Top 25 Quotes About Hammocks
#1. There was something in the music of the accent that Douglass liked: it was as if the Cork people put long lazy hammocks in their sentences.
Colum McCann
#2. The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in the dictionary, but it should be. [Of lying in hammocks]
Dan Kieran
#3. When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.
David McCullough
#4. She is the last of her kind, she thought. No wars had ever touched her, and she had lived through three; nothing had disturbed that world of hers, where gentlemen smoked on the porch or in hammocks, where ladies fanned themselves gently and drank cool water.
Harper Lee
#5. We enjoy telling ourselves that we will soon be gods, masters of the planet, manipulating the genes of living creatures and rebuilding the world at a nano-level as we lie back in our hammocks, attended by our robot servants. I don't believe a word of it, and I'm not sure many of us do.
Paul Kingsnorth
#6. Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers.
Anais Nin
#7. I have two hammocks, one Mayan and one Guatemalan, both family size because I like to lie in them perpendicular. When I'm working on a character, I lie in them and daydream. They're the best tools for working that I have.
Mark Ruffalo
#8. Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.
Victor Hugo
#9. Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.
David Niven
#11. I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness.
Sherri Shepherd
#12. You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#13. In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.
Marcus Aurelius
#15. God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.
Harold Brodkey
#16. Amongst it all my soul craved one thing, Love, for it was the beginning and end of anything that will ever truly matter.
Nikki Rowe
#18. We shouldn't turn the safety net into a hammock. It should actually be a safety net.
Steve King
#19. Don't put Banana and Hammock in the same sentence
Tony Horton
#20. From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.
Ayya Khema
#21. A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.
Herman Melville
#22. Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.
Rose Tremain
#23. I never write the storyline ahead of the novel and stick to it like glue. I prefer my writing to be organic. It takes on a life of it's own.
Airam
#24. Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.
Shana Alexander
#25. The end is never the end. A new challenge awaits. A test no man could be prepared for. A new hell he must conquer and destroy. A new level of growth he must confront himself. The machine in the ghost within. This is the journey of the man on the moon.
Kid Cudi
