In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
The neighborhood children, of course, were forbidden by their parents to play with my little boy, Garth, so I finally got him… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
“One thing I learned there on that beautiful front porch was if I wanted to be successful, if I wanted to do… — Chip Gaines Copy Share Image
“Three generations of women out on the front porch, four counting little Emily, trying to put words around a past and a… — Lalita Tademy Copy Share Image
Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. "Sounds like Pillsbury… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Beau, what is it you want?" "A porch," he says softly. He says it like it's my name, and right then, I… — Emily Henry Copy Share Image
My new apartment might be a place where there are lots of children. They might gather on my porch to play, and… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
“Sexually active? Sexually active ? Patrick and I hadn't even learned the fine points of kissing yet! I marched on down. 'For… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
“The packet of fading photos gives it away if you know how to look: always a rundown porch landing and stair rails… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
“Those porch girls had no idea they were going to sprawl on that couch until the weight of their adolescent bodies sank… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
The point they (Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Gabo, the neo-Plasticists, and so on) all had in common was to be inside and outside… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
All of the courses that run through real streets are very demanding. There is no room for error, no shoulders to lean… — Mario Andretti Copy Share Image
Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse;… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
'If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he'll be on your porch and the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
But I would rather be with you, somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July, just looking up to Heaven,… — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
He's (Willie Stargell) such a big strong guy he should love that porch. He's got power enough to hit home runs in… — Sparky Anderson Copy Share Image
I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
What I saw was more than I could stand. The noise I heard had been made by Little Ann. All her life… — Wilson Rawls Copy Share Image
When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing… — Billy Preston Copy Share Image
It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I would love it if, even for one day, you could walk through a neighborhood and see an Asian guy sitting on… — Eminem Copy Share Image
Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches… — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
The culturally specific, in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
“You're the most important person in my life," I whispered. "You're the only man I ever let in." "But I'm not in,… — Barbra Annino Copy Share Image
Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And -… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just… — Andy Griffith Copy Share Image
I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one… — Jeffrey Donovan Copy Share Image
We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old,… — Bobby Doerr Copy Share Image
The front door flew open, and Mary shot out of the house, jumping off the porch, not even bothering with the steps… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image