Top 58 Quotes About Picnics: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Picnics

#1. The closest she had been to them was certain summer evenings when they had gone for picnics in the magravine's ice-barge -- simple family affairs, just Freya and Mama and Papa and about seventy servants and courtiers

Philip Reeve

#2. Picnics in the park with you: barbecue and miscue.

Dan Adams

#3. Apparently while my squad and I were on our way here, skipping through the French countryside, picking daisies, having picnics, and laying farmer's daughters, the Army must have turned into a democracy.

Robert Rodat

#4. Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

Georg Brandes

#5. Pies mean Thanksgiving and Christmas and picnics.

Janet Clarkson

#6. I was a storm cloud that ruined picnics, not something full of warmth and light

Jay Crownover

#7. To do things, simple things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day ... was a man born just to endure those things and then die?

Charles Bukowski

#8. As a general man I tried watching movies, playing sports, going to picnics and other entertainments but I still got bored, then I tried heroism and now I am hero, and I never get bored.

Amit Kalantri

#9. Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.

Ezra Taft Benson

#10. Everything from war to picnics depends on the weather, as Wolfe remarked

Rex Stout

#11. Grandma's Advice on Picnics
Not every day is going to be a picnic,
because there are ants everywhere you go ~
and a few of them are even insects.

Beryl Dov

#12. Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.

Aimee Bender

#13. One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

William Feather

#14. Her favourite summer memories were not of events themselves, of picnics, sea bathing, tennis afternoons and cricket matches, but of watching Hugh and Daniel enjoying them and locking into memory the delight in their faces and their open laughter.

Helen Simonson

#15. I foresee many romantic picnics in our future. You drinking a virgin pina colada. Me drinking the blood of a virgin. (Simon)

Cassandra Clare

#16. I know my own father's business was very dependent on the goodwill and business and trade from people in northern Mexico. We knew their families and went to their weddings and baptisms and balls and picnics, and we had a great time with them.

Linda Ronstadt

#17. Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)

Sherman Alexie

#18. I never took you for the defender of Sunday picnics and tea at five

Emma Jane Holloway

#19. Patches of stained red grass. Rotting baby limbs at dusk. The sound of cicadas and laughter; picnics with madmen by the black lake at noon.

Andrew Gallacher

#20. All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.

Catherynne M Valente

#21. Country picnics always sound nicer than they are. I think we should just have the idea of them, and be pleased with it, and then not go. The only true pleasures are indoors, artificial, and untainted with healthiness.

Jude Morgan

#22. I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!

Phyllis Bottome

#23. Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

Alexander Smith

#24. Alice was deemed too young for the events that catered to their guests, and too nervous to sing or perform as an excuse to be among them, so her interactions with Lord Fenton were reserved for a few picnics and ... one grass fire.

Anonymous

#25. They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it.

Larry Nelson

#26. You and me Haymitch.Very cozy.Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights sitting around the fire retelling old Hunger Games tale.
-Peeta Mellark

Suzanne Collins

#27. They were kids. Kids don't care about totalitarianism. For my parents, Prague is picnics on Petrin Hill and homemade knedliky. It's home. They didn't notice the tanks in the backyard, the blood in the streets.

Robin Wasserman

#28. Such widely different things as war and picnics will surely show a man up.

Bess Truman

#29. The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics.

Christopher Hitchens

#30. My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.

Kwame Kilpatrick

#31. Lucy wondered what it was she had found. A boy who wanted to be a writer. And a family who had picnics under the stars. She felt as if she had lost something. After all, that family now lived only in the pages of an old diary.

Kristin Kladstrup

#32. A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.

Ben Elliot

#33. If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

Marie Dressler

#34. I was the least easygoing and carefree person on the planet. I was a storm cloud that ruined picnics, not something full of warmth and light. "I

Jay Crownover

#35. We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

Bill Vaughan

#36. Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#37. I adore war. It is like a big picnic but without the objectivelessness of a picnic. I have never been more well or more happy.

Julian Grenfell

#38. Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

Dave Barry

#39. Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.

Hudson Stuck

#40. Uh, stay fat people - That's my motto. It's no picnic!

Seth Rogen

#41. Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.

Gary Barlow

#42. If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.

Jonathan Cainer

#43. There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.

W. Somerset Maugham

#44. Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic.

Jane Wagner

#45. I'm not easy to live with and I know that it's true. However, you're no picnic either, babe, and that's one of the things I liked about you.

Don Henley

#46. Rain is the picnic when it rains.

Marty Rubin

#47. If you're going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, you'd better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them.

Paul Orfalea

#48. A picnic is more than eating a meal, it is a pleasurable sate of mind.

DeeDee Stovel

#49. The act of writing itself isn't outrageous. And the institution subtly and insidiously works on you in such a way that though you seem to have freedom you become a servant. Your main issue is to get promoted to the next thing. Or get invited to a picnic. Or get tenure. Or get laid.

Gerald Stern

#50. I hope you accidentally drink leukemia at a picnic.

Jim Norton

#51. I am not afraid to appear in Israel, although when I come to a place like Israel, I know it's not a picnic by the Thames. I am aware of the tension and it saddens me.

Ian Anderson