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He's (Willie Stargell) such a big strong guy he should love that porch. He's got power enough to hit home runs in any park, including Yellowstone. — Sparky Anderson

The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch. — Loretta Lynn

Lucien was sitting on his front porch, drinking — John Grisham

The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it. — Carlos Castaneda

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

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids. — Robert Lansing

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs. — Tommy Shaw

Deliberately, as if committing himself to something, he stepped forward and walked down the path to the porch and knocked on the front door. — John Edward Williams

Silly human is trying to get himself killed. Zoltan turned toward the voice but saw only a dog resting on a porch a few houses down the road. — Kerrelyn Sparks

Come on, asshole," Paul said as he stepped onto the porch. "Come make me cry - I dare ya. — Kele Moon

Easy to not think about other people's suffering, when it was hidden away. Harder to stomach when it collapsed on your front porch. — Kat Zhang

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own. — Deb Caletti

Shoot you on the front porch and knock you to the back yard. — Lil' Wayne

Drinks on the closed-in porch. The exactness of her — Maya Angelou

I'm actively going out onto the porch and noodling around on my guitar. — Jemaine Clement

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day. — Zora Neale Hurston

I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup. — Tom Brokaw

There is no one that I have fought more with, laughed as much with or felt safer with, and no one who I would rather sit on my porch swing with. — Laurie Kast-Klein

Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day. — Johnny Carson

and while he did all the actual dancing, I remember whirling around and around the porch those hot summer days so long ago and never wanting to stop. — Julie Reece Deaver

Dirt music, Fox tells Georgie, is anything you can play on a verandah or porch, without electricity. — Tim Winton

There was something satisfying about swinging the hammer, hitting the nails, and fixing the porch. It made me feel strong. It made me feel powerful. — Shannon Wiersbitzky

The tomb in Palestine
Is not the porch of spirits lingering.
It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay. — Wallace Stevens

The woman from across the street edged along the side porch with some silver-wrapped casserole thing clutched to her chest like a shield. — Jennifer Skully

You can chase a bird from your porch, but you can not take away its ability to fly. — Dr. Myles Munroe

Something inside of him twisted in an ugly manner. The girl had a damn movie star on her front porch and had looked away. — Alessandra Torre

(Who but a drunk, I wonder looking back, could sit on the porch alone and get in an argument?) — Mary Karr

She stood before him on the porch now, as living, breathing proof that fortune had not tipped itself in his direction all those years ago. — Abby Slovin

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

Life often is a bucket of water sitting on a farmer's porch. Our choice is in the drinking. — Harley King

Screen porch in a tree. — Elizabeth Bishop

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

You don't like surprises?" "I'm fine with them." Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday. Let's get naked on the porch. Oh God. — Nora Roberts

Huge containers of red and pink geraniums were placed on each step and window boxes full of pink and lavender flowers lined the porch railings. — J.A. Whiting

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch. — Rebecca Wells

I'm an old-fashioned guy ... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something. — Johnny Depp

Johnny James was sitting on the front porch, sipping from a glass of gasoline in the December heat, when the doom-screamer came. — Robert McCammon

My youngest boy went mad. He sits drooling on the porch, trying to play the cat like an accordion. He's been scratched some. — H.P. Lovecraft

I will miss our porch. I thought about that as I settled into one of its rockers, — Alessandra Torre

He has the kind of Southern accent that makes you think of melting butter on biscuits, and porch swings. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

I moved into an all-electric house. I forgot and left the porch light on all day. When I got home the front door wouldn't open. — Steven Wright

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

My ideal summer day was reading on the porch. — Harold E. Varmus

I would court you with passion, if things were different. you'd never get me off your porch swing. — Laura Whitcomb

I wanted a summer filled with porch swings, lemonade and fireflies. — Tiffany King

I'm still standing here. Okay, it's a crummy front porch I stand on, cracked to shithouse, and who am I to say that the world isn't the same? — Markus Zusak

It was all a cottage is supposed to be, small and snug, with a front porch, pink climbing roses, and lots of trees for shade. — Jeanne Birdsall

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

We don't hide crazy," I said. "We put it on the porch and let it entertain the neighbors. — Nick Wilgus

My main skills are talking and cooking biscuits,' Augustus said. 'And getting drunk on the porch. — Larry McMurtry

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book. — Robert M. Gates

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

I just want to come and sit on your front porch and drink mint juleps. — August Wilson

You got to tell me the brave captain
Why are the wicked so strong?
How do the angels get to sleep
When the devil leaves the porch light on? — Tom Waits

When I was a teenager, I was so dumb my mamma knocked me off the porch with a broom. You wish you had so good a mamma. — Deacon Jones

Funny how one lie leads to another and before you know it, your whole life can be a lie. I sit on the porch swing later, not even — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

This sort of day makes indoor work seem shameful. So working outside, whether in the garden or the woods or on the front porch ... , is a sacrament. — Robert Michael Pyle

We sat in silence, staring out into the street, listening to the creak of the porch swing, the crickets, and the occasional gunshot. — Will McIntosh

That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it. — Margaret Peterson Haddix

If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Sitting in Grandmother's old wicker chair and littering my porch with her foolish young life. — Wallace Stegner

Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica. — Abraham Lincoln

She cringed involuntarily. He was totally off his rocker. Like tipped-off-the-porch-and-into-the-fishpond off his rocker. — Anonymous

Hillary's trying to appear downhome. Earlier today she was sitting on the front porch of a general store whittling a pantsuit. — David Letterman

How much money I have is not indicative of my worth. If it was, then I would be the lesser individual on this porch. — Alessandra Torre

My porch feels as safe as a chocolate doughnut on an ant hill. — Daniel H. Wilson

I was happy for nights at home, ordering in and comfort food -- for strong drinks on the porch and long talks in the kitchen. — Ann Benjamin

It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb? — Emily Dickinson

But now you can't find me or reach me or hurt me ever again and once I tell the words I am going to kick you off my porch and learn to breathe again. — Ann Turner

His laugh is made of porch swings and lemonade. — Augusten Burroughs

People were drawn to her the way a moth clings to a porch light, and I was the most hypnotized of all. — Brielle A. Marino

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade — Augusten Burroughs

When you keep the porch light on for the prodigal child, you do what God does every single moment. — Max Lucado

I didn't know what to do or say, so I just sat as quietly as he did. The silence got so big and real that it felt like three people sat on the porch. — Sherman Alexie

You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark. — Wallace Arnold

The house is still but a sort of porch at the entrance of a burrow. — Henry David Thoreau

Summer is full of smoke, and endless lawns. Quietly, whether across moss or on algae, knee over the railing of the little porch, fate comes. — Andre Alexis

Heaven is a house with porch lights. — Ray Bradbury

So we show up on her porch out of the blue, kidnap her, feed her frozen fruit and ask her on a date. Genius — Aprilynne Pike

Mr. Avery sat on the porch every — Harper Lee

Like a four-sided porch I'm open to all winds. — Luc Sante

I know I'm probably the last person you want to see right now, but I thought if I sat on your porch, you wouldn't be scared. You wouldn't be alone. — Mia Sheridan

He held the door open for me and I walked past him, leaving my conscience on the porch. It curled up next to my principles. — Janice Hardy

The wasp sits on the porch of her paper castle. — Mary Oliver

God doesn't come to sit on the porch and sip lemonade. He comes to take over. — Ayana Mathis

a few times, and then pushed the screen door open. "Let's go," Stern said. As they crossed the porch — John Sandford

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

Seated with Stuart and Brent Tarleton in the cool shade of the porch of Tara, her father's plantation, — Margaret Mitchell

Destiny, if I could sit across the porch from God, I'd thank Him for Lending me you ... — Flavia Weedn

Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth. — Pat Conroy

I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and resume whittling. — Albert Rosenfeld

She left the porch pelting her back with unasked questions. They hoped the answers were cruel and strange. — Zora Neale Hurston

They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged. — Zora Neale Hurston

Nevertheless, I drove right past my landmark, an antique store which looked to me like an ordinary house with junk piled on the front porch. — Abraham Verghese

Moths flitted in the porch light, pinging against the bulb, helplessly drawn to something they could never have. — Jamie Ford

Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.
— James Lee Burke

Besides making change in the collection plate every Sunday, Mr. Avery sat on the porch every night until nine o'clock and sneezed. — Harper Lee

On the front porch where she had come to weigh them quietly with her eyes, her quietness a condemnation, the woman stood motionless. — Ray Bradbury

By no means was crazy unique to the South,but it sure did love to parade it around on the front porch, give it a drink and welcome the world to stare. — Robert Reeves