Rocking Chairs Quotes

• Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

  Glenn Turner

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.

  Wallis Simpson

  Moving, Reflection, Air

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• I'm the kind of person who would rather rock in my rocking chair when I'm old and regret a few things that I did than to sit there and regret that I never tried.

  Dolly Parton

  Regret, Rocks, Kind

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• When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

  Patty Duke

  Listening, Rolling, Sitting

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• When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all.

  Dolly Parton

  Done, Want, Able

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• Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.

  Eudora Welty

  World, Surprise, Now And Then

  Eudora Welty (1956). “The Golden Apples”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

  Dan Rather

  Sports, Baseball, Games

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2005.

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• Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you in motion but gets you nowhere

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Worry, Chairs

  Ashwin Sanghi (2010). “Chanakya's Chant”, p.391, Westland

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• Good-bye is always hello to something else. Good-bye/hello, good-bye/hello, like the sound of a rocking chair.

  George Ella Lyon

  Bye, Sound, Hello

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• Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

  M. Emmet Walsh

  Sunset, Men, Years

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• I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.

  Red Adair

  Home, Years, Half

  "Oil Well Firefighter Adair Dies" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 9, 2004.

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• Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward.

  Martha Graham

  Past, Rocks, Chairs

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• Adventure is where you find it, any place, every place, except at home in the rocking chair.

  Wally Byam

  Travel, Home, Adventure

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• There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Book, Autumn, Winter

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• The answer, usually, is no. Wisdom is a quality that defies easy definition but psychologists who study aging have found that some of its components - judgment, emotional regulation - do improve with age in most people, consciously or not. Of course there is a subset of people out there who are sitting in their rocking chairs, spewing hate, but my guess is that these people weren't very pleasant to begin with, ... The reality is that the data are fairly convincing that people as they get older become more positive and less self-absorbed.

  James W. Pennebaker

  Hate, Reality, Emotional

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• Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Horse, Thinking, Race

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• I'm going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I'm 75 - and that's just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn't get tangled in my rocking chair.

  Stevie Nicks

  Dream, Tangled, Singing

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• I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

  Grandma Moses

  Waiting, Helping, Help Me

  Moses, Grandma (1952). “Grandma Moses: My Life's History”, New York] : Harper

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• Worry is like rocking in a rocking chair all day, because it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.

  Joyce Meyer

  Worry, Anxiety, Busy

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• I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.

  Beatrice Lillie

  Knitting, Relaxation, Going Out

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• My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.

  Colonel Sanders

  Government, Chairs

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• In life, you gotta do something. And the medical journals keep on saying if you've got a goal or some passion in life, you'll outlive all the other guys who - the bank manager that retired. They gave him a rocking chair and he rocked himself to death. So you gotta have a passion, whatever it happens to be. Whether it's this or something else, it doesn't matter, as long as it's a reason to get out of bed every morning, as my accountant of 50 years keeps on saying.

  James Wright

  Morning, Passion, Years

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• I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age.

  Nora Johnson

  Golf, Thinking, Age

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• Use crazy glue and nails to turn a rocking chair into just a chair that looks like a rocking chair.

  Demetri Martin

  Crazy, Glue, Nails

  Twitter post from Jun 24, 2012

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• When I was nine years, growing up on the south side of Chicago, in the ghetto. The Robert Taylor Projects. I came home from school, I showed my mother a picture and said "Momma, that's you in the rocking chair. There's daddy over there." I said, "Momma, one of these days, I'm gonna be big and strong. I'm gonna be a football player. I'm gonna be a boxer. I'm gonna buy you a beautiful house and I'm gonna buy you pretty dresses." That's all I want to do in life.

  Mr. T

  Beautiful, Football, Mother

  Source: chicagoist.com

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