Sitting On A Porch Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

John Grisham

#4. Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

Jerome K. Jerome

#5. 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

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

Harley King

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Robert M. Gates

#11. In a relationship if you are giving and getting nothing back in return, stop giving so much, and spend time being. Give to yourself, be who you are.

Brenda Shoshanna

#12. From my first days in Washington D.C., where I rolled a whole four downtown blocks without seeing a single shop, cafe, bar or restaurant I could not access, to the beautifully accessible buses in New York City, I was in heaven.

Stella Young

#13. A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

Edith Sitwell

#14. I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then.

Douglas Booth

#15. Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

Dave Eggers

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

Wallace Stegner

#17. 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

#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. Pilot season in L.A. is just this blood bath. They make so many pilots, and such a small percentage are picked up. And then if you are picked up, there are so many variables. You have to get a good time slot, and you have to get promoted. And then you have to thrive in that time slot.

Michaela Conlin

#20. 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

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

David Letterman

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

Abraham Lincoln

#23. I'd like to change the depictions of life, love, and adventure under what's known as the typical, overused backdrop of Hollywood.

Romany Malco

#24. 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

#25. Can you be quiet while I make you come at the table, Evangeline?

Adriane Leigh

#26. 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

#27. The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

Learned Hand

#28. The others returned, the room filled again, benches were reclaimed and re-possessed, and another hour of pleasure or of penance was to be set out, another hour of music was to give delight or the gapes,* as real or affected taste for it prevailed.

Jane Austen

#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