--- title: "Best Porch Lines" description: "Browse 210 Porch quotes by 193 authors. Discover the best Porch sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f24/marco-rubio-355_blessed_i-spent-six-years-as-a-child-growing-not_610685.jpg" --- > [I spent six years as a child growing not far from Las Vegas.I use to sit on the porch of our home…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marco-rubio/i-spent-six-years-as-a-child-growing-not-far-from-las-vegas-i-use-to/) [Marco Rubio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marco-rubio/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f24/marco-rubio-355_blessed_i-spent-six-years-as-a-child-growing-not_610685.jpg) > [“In my front yard, there are these two giant old trees, which help the porch vibe, obviously, with a forty-foot-tall canopy. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chad-eastham/in-my-front-yard-there-are-these-two-giant-old-trees-which-help-the/) [Chad Eastham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chad-eastham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/108/chad-eastham-28146_old-trees_in-my-front-yard-there-are-these-two-gia_2690361.jpg) > [This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/this-is-the-autumn-of-wonders-yet-every-day-every-single-day-i-go/) [Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/872/sue-monk-kidd-404_afternoon_this-is-the-autumn-of-wonders-yet-every_2844650.png) > [What I saw was more than I could stand. The noise I heard had been made by Little Ann. All her life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilson-rawls/what-i-saw-was-more-than-i-could-stand-the-noise-i-heard-had-been/) [Wilson Rawls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilson-rawls/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c14/wilson-rawls-17111_heard_what-i-saw-was-more-than-i-could-stand-t_2926915.jpg) > [When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zora-neale-hurston/when-the-people-sat-around-on-the-porch-and-passed-around-the/) [Zora Neale Hurston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zora-neale-hurston/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba2/zora-neale-hurston-923_crayon_when-the-people-sat-around-on-the-porch_809271.png) > [“The porch held a wealth of memories for Quinn of times spent with his father; of more recent times when Quinn took…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-morgan/the-porch-held-a-wealth-of-memories-for-quinn-of-times-spent-with-his/) [Alex Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-morgan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25f/alex-morgan-1963_memories_the-porch-held-a-wealth-of-memories-for_2324087.jpg) > [I would love it if, even for one day, you could walk through a neighborhood and see an Asian guy sitting on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eminem/i-would-love-it-if-even-for-one-day-you-could-walk-through-a/) [Eminem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eminem/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e32/eminem-415_asian_i-would-love-it-if-even-for-one-day-you_346447.jpg) > [My object is to live in a place that does not call itself 'the community with a heart.' I want one of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-king/my-object-is-to-live-in-a-place-that-does-not-call-itself-the/) [Florence King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef8/florence-king-2603_community_my-object-is-to-live-in-a-place-that-doe_2996938.jpg) > [Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/families-will-not-be-broken-curse-and-expel-them-send-their-children/) [Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92b/marilynne-robinson-602_broken_families-will-not-be-broken-curse-and-ex_754937.jpg) > [I showed her how I'd been making tiny cuts in my skin to let the badness and the pain leak out. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-halse-anderson/i-showed-her-how-i-d-been-making-tiny-cuts-in-my-skin-to-let-the/) [Laurie Halse Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-halse-anderson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce4/laurie-halse-anderson-623_badness_i-showed-her-how-i-d-been-making-tiny-cu_2080716.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/porch/#itemlist", "name": "Porch Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I spent six years as a child growing not far from Las Vegas.I use to sit on the porch of our home and listen to my grandfather tell stories as he smoked one of three daily cigars.One of the things my grandfather instilled in me, was that I was really blessed because I was a citizen of the greatest country in the history of our mankind.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Marco Rubio" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marco-rubio/i-spent-six-years-as-a-child-growing-not-far-from-las-vegas-i-use-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f24/marco-rubio-355_blessed_i-spent-six-years-as-a-child-growing-not_610685.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f24/marco-rubio-355_blessed_i-spent-six-years-as-a-child-growing-not_610685.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f24/marco-rubio-355_blessed_i-spent-six-years-as-a-child-growing-not_610685.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I spent six years as a child growing not far from Las Vegas.I use to sit on the porch of our home and listen…” — Marco Rubio", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In my front yard, there are these two giant old trees, which help the porch vibe, obviously, with a forty-foot-tall canopy. 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