Best Porch Quotations
142 Porch quotes by 124 unique authors
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Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. "Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk,"…
— Dean Koontz
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What I saw was more than I could stand. The noise I heard had been made by Little Ann. All her life she had slept…
— Wilson Rawls
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Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.
— James Lee Burke
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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…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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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,…
— Martha Graham
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Besides, Southerners are hospitable. They'll probably offer me lemonade." Excuse me? You're going to sit on a porch and drink lemonade while I plow a…
— Nancy Werlin
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You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm probably never gonna…
— John Mayer
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i would court you with passion, if things were different. you'd never get me off your porch swing.
— Laura Whitcomb
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I stood on Susan Boone's front porch, feeling lame. But then, since I've pretty much felt lame my entire life, this was no big surprise.…
— Meg Cabot
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When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?" "Like I said," he said as I unlocked the car,…
— Sarah Dessen
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My new apartment might be a place where there are lots of children. They might gather on my porch to play, and when I step…
— Lorrie Moore
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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…
— Tom Waits
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Would you leave me alone, you walking pair of boots! Let go of my easel, you refugee from a luggage factory. If you need some…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything…
— Harper Lee
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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…
— Deb Caletti
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Come on, lover, let's have a look," Eric said, giving me a quick kiss. He jumped off the back porch with me still attached to…
— Charlaine Harris
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A few years have gone and come around when we were sittin' at our favorite spot in town and you looked at me, got down…
— Taylor Swift
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This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when T. Ray left.…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.
— Margaret Haddix
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WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around…
— Larry McMurtry
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This was a memory I wanted to keep, whole, and recall again and again. When I was fifty years old I wanted to remember this…
— Sara Zarr
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His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade
— Augusten Burroughs
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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…
— Markus Zusak
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No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone…
— Megan Abbott
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