Picnics Quotes - Page 2

• Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

  Alice Walker

  Tea, Beverages, Literature

  Alice Walker (2003). “The third life of Grange Copeland: Meridian ; The color purple”

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• I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.

  Bess Truman

  Food, People, Cooking

  Bess Wallace Truman, Harry S. Truman (2011). “Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman, 1919–1943”, p.14, Truman State University Press

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• Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim.

  Barbara Ascher

  Running, Grief, Blow

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• Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don't mind going through a little bush to get there!

  Minnie Pearl

  Kissing, Men, Mind

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

  Jonathan Cainer

  Happiness, Earth, Born

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• The Dionysian is no picnic.

  Camille Paglia

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.465, Vintage

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• 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

  Quality, Easy, Babe

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• I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.

  Will Estes

  Valentines Day, Nice, Dinner

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• Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Catholic, Mind

  Herman Melville (1963). “Works: Billy Budd, and other prose pieces, edited by R. W. Weaver”

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

  Bess Truman

  War, Men, Different

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• The usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA , then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all, and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all.

  Douglas Adams

  Nice, Kids, Responsibility

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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

  Gary Barlow

  Anger, Annoying, Rage

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• A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.

  Karen Russell

  Feelings, Generations, Family Reunion

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• Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.

  Elizabeth Enright

  Father, House, Dinner

  Elizabeth Enright (2015). “The Four-Story Mistake”, p.180, Macmillan

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• Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily. There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into. ‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.

  Enid Blyton

  Beautiful, Lakes, Clouds

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• I think nowadays people are so used taking the camera to the family picnic - so people are less surprised by films made of them, like home movies.

  D. A. Pennebaker

  Home, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Even here, in the U.S., I walk my daughter's dog and I look for interesting people sitting at a picnic table and I walk over with my white hair and I ask, "Would you mind if I sat and rested here for a minute?" Nobody would refuse that.

  Rita Gelman

  Daughter, Dog, Hair

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• I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Interesting, Tree, Pumps

  Roy Lichtenstein, John Caplans (1968). “Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition 6 Jan.-4 Feb. 1968, Tate Gallery, London ...”

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• You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.

  Anais Nin

  Believe, World, Monotony

  "The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)". Book by Anais Nin, 1969.

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• I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  Theatre, Essentials, Ants

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• 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

  Dream, Growing Up, Years

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic.

  Deborah Kara Unger

  Philosophy, Rocks, Years

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• 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

  Were Not Meant To Be, States, Caterpillars

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• You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

  Erma Bombeck

  4th Of July, Food, Patriotic

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

  Seth Rogen

  Loss, People, Motto

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