Porch Quotes - Page 2

• Every gathering of Americans-whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium-is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  America, Gathering, Influence

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• The greatest part of each day, each year, each lifetime is made up of small, seemingly insignificant moments. Those moments may becooking dinner...relaxing on the porch with your own thoughts after the kids are in bed, playing catch with a child before dinner, speaking out against a distasteful joke, driving to the recycling center with a week's newspapers. But they are not insignificant, especially when these moments are models for kids.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Family, Children, Kids

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• In the deep shadow of the porch
  A slender bind-weed springs,
  And climbs, like airy acrobat,
  The trellises, and swings
  And dances in the golden sun
  In fairy loops and rings.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Weed, Spring, Swings

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• Like a four-sided porch I'm open to all winds.

  Luc Sante

  Wind, Four

  "Permanent Outsider: Interview with Luc Sante". artafricamagazine.org. November 25, 2010.

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• 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

  Simple, Hectic Schedule, Long

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• The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to sweep her porch steps, felt absolutely certain that some wonderful change was arriving in her life. The strength of this belief was puzzling; what she was feeling, she decided, was really the presence of God.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Feelings, Kitchen, Arriving

  Elizabeth Strout (2013). “Amy & Isabelle”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Something else was different when we were young: our parents were outdoors. I’m not saying they were joining health clubs and things of that sort, but they were out of the house, out on the porch, talking to neighbors. As far as physical fitness goes, today’s kids are the sorriest generation in the history of the United States. Their parents may be out jogging, but the kids just aren’t outside.

  Richard Louv

  Kids, Talking, Parent

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.17, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies.

  Paul Robeson

  Summer, Sweet, Morning

  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.15, Beacon Press

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• I even move out onto the front porch and see my own limited view of the world. I want to take that world, and for the first time ever, I feel like I can do it. I’ve survived everything I’ve had to so far. I’m still standing here.

  Markus Zusak

  Moving, Views, World

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.124, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.

  David Mixner

  Summer, Garden, Ice Cream

  "Turkey Hollow Almanac: Summer Memories" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2008.

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• She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Coffee, Book, Reading

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• I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.

  Sally Rand

  Watches, Type

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• I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a porch from which a single road leads only homeward.

  Nancy E. Turner

  Dream, Cutting, Wind

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• It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Funny, Life, Success

  "The Queen of Daytime TV". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 25, 1991.

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• There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Children, Halloween

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• But I would rather be with you, somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July, just looking up to Heaven, at this crescent in the sky

  Robert Hunter

  July, Sky, San Francisco

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

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• How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.

  Edward Abbey

  Beer, Beef, Cabins

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• If you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.

  John Madden

  Running, Dog, Bigs

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• A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.

  Dan Stevens

  Farewell, Positivity, Boots

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 'If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he'll be on your porch and the next day he'll rape your wife in your own bed.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Next Day, Wife, Bully

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• Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Loss, Men, Ears

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4418, Delphi Classics

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• I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm.

  Leelee Sobieski

  New York, Moving, Cities

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Robert M. Gates

  Crazy, Book, Reading

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• It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.

  Charles Osgood

  Missing, Trying, Firsts

  Charles Osgood (2004). “Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack: A Boyhood Year During World War II”, Large Print Press

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• Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Home, Style, Fading

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.8, Hachette UK

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