Hammocks Quotes

• People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

  Alice Walker

  Work, Naps, People

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.146, New Press, The

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• While sleeping in a hammock, with the touch of a warm wind we remember why we are in love with the life!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Life, Sleep

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• I would start a revolution, but I just bought a hammock.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, Revolution

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• I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.

  Devon Werkheiser

  Nature, Nice, Silence

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• We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency...

  Paul Ryan

  People, Safety, Want

  "Paul Ryan Wants ‘Welfare Reform Round 2’" by Arthur Delaney, Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.

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• Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.

  Peggy Noonan

  Beautiful, Nice, Inspirational Life

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• I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don't understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Inspirational, Holiday, Order

  "The Idler's view" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2005.

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• I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Fall, Support Systems, People

  "JoJo Dishes on Her New Album - and Hair!". "Seventeen" Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 6, 2011.

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• Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Life, Spiritual, Acceptance

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• If Spiderman was real, and I was a criminal, and he shot me with his web, I would say, "Dude, thanks for the hammock."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Real, Humor

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• I was studying my 'Bold and Beautiful' script the other day, lying in a hammock, when one of my Siberian tigers walked up and grabbed it out of my hand - she wanted to play. See - teeth marks!

  Tippi Hedren

  Beautiful, Lying, Hands

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• An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock.

  Jean de Lattre de Tassigny

  Men, Two, Acorns

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• Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.

  David Niven

  Making Love, Duration, Fame

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• Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble...that's what I'm in need of.

  Karen Walker

  Lying, Lakes, Needs

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• Personally, I believe a rocking hammock, a good cigar, and a tall gin-and-tonic is the way to save the planet.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Believe, Way, Gin And Tonic

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.392, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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

  Ocean, Generosity, Forests

  Herman Melville (1855). “Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile”, p.20

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• It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Art, Children, Practice

  "Easy does it" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 01, 2005.

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• My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.

  Eric Stoltz

  Lying, Reading, Phones

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• 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

  Distance, Lying, Two

  Dan Kieran, Tom Hodgkinson (2012). “The Book of Idle Pleasures”, p.194, Random House

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• Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

  Shana Alexander

  Rocks, Two, Half

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden - first sweet corn on the cob dripping with butter, first tomatoes dead ripe and sunwarm, string beans, squash, crisp cucumbers. July can also be hard and shiny, brassy and sharp. Some days are like copper pennies in the sunlight.

  Jean Hersey

  Sweet, Beach, Garden

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• Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers.

  Anais Nin

  Night, Lovers, Tropical

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• For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad.  But I could never find me a double hammock

  Frank Sinatra

  July, Years, Secret

  "The Way You Wear Your Hat : Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'". Book by Bill Zehme, 1997.

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• Kissing Simon was pleasant. It was a gentle sort of pleasant, like lying in a hammock on a summer day with a book and a glass of lemonade

  Cassandra Clare

  Summer, Lying, Book

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.548, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Night, Clouds, Black

  Victor Hugo, Frederic Shoberl (1834). “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”

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