Top 42 Veranda Quotes
#1. Generally, that humble piece of furniture placed on the front veranda of the house officially belonged to the man of the household; the women never slept on it.
Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
#2. home. She would have sat in her armchair on the veranda with a pot of tea and a book. As if nothing had happened, as if the world out there were just as unchanged as her comfortable study.
Maxim Leo
#3. They gave him a little piece of raw meat. Rikki-tikki liked it immensely, and when it was finished he went out into the veranda and sat in the sunshine and fluffed up his fur to make it dry to the roots. Then he felt better.
Rudyard Kipling
#4. Early in the morning Rikki-tikki came to early breakfast in the veranda riding on Teddy's shoulder,
Ruskin Bond
#5. When he sat on the Makepeace veranda, it was as if he'd gone to another country
Paula Fox
#6. To sit on the front steps - whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city - and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.
Harvey Milk
#7. The scent of Havana tobacco draped thick from the magnolia trees in the front yard. Ice cubes mingled and clinked against the sides of crystal tumblers. Patrick said hello to a group of men sitting on the veranda. I heard the pop of a champagne cork and laughter from inside.
Ruta Sepetys
#8. What I wanted was some dreamlike Frank Lloyd Wright bungalow where we could sit on the veranda forever and it would always be twilight in the temperate zones, in the most beautiful house.
William Kittredge
#9. I certainly don't have any interest in being on a dark veranda with any man except my husband, unlike some women do. - Esther Norman
Barry Gray
#10. There's a special feeling you get on a veranda that you just can't get anywhere else.
Haruki Murakami
#11. The sparrow hops along the veranda, with wet feet.
Jack Kerouac
#12. I was staying at the Konchucos Tambo lodge, next to the Huascaran national park, near Chavin. Sitting here on its veranda, I was beginning to see where all those Latin American magical realists get their inspiration from: they don't need to make anything up; they just write down what's around them.
Mark Barrowcliffe
#13. I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.
Dirk Benedict
#14. High time he had another tutor,' said Larry. 'You leave the house for five minutes and come back and find him disembowelling Moby Dick on the front porch.' 'I'm sure he didn't mean any harm,' said Mother, ' but it was rather silly for him to do it on the veranda.
Gerald Durrell
#15. Had I the time to keep a diary, I'd use that time to better effect; sleeping on the veranda.
Soseki Natsume
#16. Country life has its advantages,' he used to say. 'You sit on the veranda drinking tea and your ducklings swim on the pond, and everything smells good ... and there are gooseberries.
Anton Chekhov
#17. In fact, I don't even own a dish rack. I put all the dishes I wash into a large bowl or colander and place this on the veranda to dry.
Marie Kondo
#18. Neither Boncer nor Teddy comes out of the house, not even to watch from the veranda. Here, laying the dead to rest, like washing and feeding and birth, is women's work.
Charlotte Wood
#19. Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!
Francine Rivers
#20. My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals.
Deborah Moggach
#21. Live close to nature and you'll never feel lonely. Don't drive those sparrows out of your veranda; they won't hack into your computer.
Ruskin Bond
#22. Ancient, grizzled, wild-eyed, emaciated by fever, dragged his weary frame up the veranda steps and collapsed in a steamer-chair. Whisky and soda kept him going while he made report and turned in his accounts.
Jack London
#23. They'd reached St Thomas's and climbed the half-dozen wooden steps to the small veranda. Gamache
Louise Penny
#24. Do you still think the world is vast? That if there is a conflagration in one place it does not have a bearing on another, and that you can sit it out in peace on your veranda admiring your absurd petunias?
Anna Politkovskaya
#25. Can I see you outside for a second?" Kat glared at Hale, then walked to the patio doors and out onto the veranda.
As Hale closed the door behind him, Kat heard Angus say, "Ooh, Mom and Dad are going to fight now.
Ally Carter
#26. Anthony imagined a time before all that - a time when people sipped Earl Grey tea on a breeze cooled veranda and looked out upon endless countryside.
Alan Gibbons
#27. If all else perish, there will remain8 a story-teller's world from Singapore to the Marquesas that is exclusively and forever Maugham, a world of veranda and prahu which we enter, as we do that of Conan Doyle's Baker Street, with a sense of happy and eternal homecoming.
Selina Shirley Hastings
#28. He strolled out onto the wide, semidark veranda, where couples were scattered at tables, filling the lantern-hung night with vague words and hazy laughter.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#29. I saw you standing on a veranda you'd built with your own hands. And I loved you.
Nora Roberts
#30. A languid janitor bears
His lantern through colonnades
And the architecture swoons.
Wallace Stevens
#31. Warish Shah I call out to you, Rise from your grave, speak out and turn, Another page of the Book of Love
Amrita Pritam
#32. A woman I knew just drowned herself
The well was deep and muddy
She was just shaking off futility
Or punishing somebody
My friends were calling up all day yesterday
All emotions and abstractions
It seems we all live so close to that line
and so far from satisfaction
Joni Mitchell
#33. I am successful because I have always been a tortoise. I did not come from a rich family. I was not smart in school. I did not finish school. I am not particularly talented. Yet, I am far richer than most people simply because I did not stop.
Robert Kiyosaki
#34. I don't care how things stand, every girl wants to feel beautiful when they see 'that ex' again. You know the one I'm talking about. The one that had claimed enough of you that some of it had been lost in the parting.
R.K. Lilley
#35. your pen sticks upright by the nib in the carpet. If there were a cat to swing or a wife to murder now would be the time. So
Virginia Woolf
#37. Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.
Riccardo Tisci
#38. They who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.
Fanny Fern
#39. I've decided to hire a 'food taster', not because I think anyone is trying to kill me, but because I want to make sure it's not to salty.
Dov Davidoff
#40. The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species.
Adolf Hitler
#41. Under the stars,I tried to sleep,but for once in my life couldn't.My mutant super power-the ability to nod off at at the drop of a hat,any time,anywhere-had deserted me.
James Lovegrove
#42. I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn't believe them, I didn't suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.
Byron Katie
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