Top 191 Porch Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

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

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

Little brats yellin 'Trick or Treat' all through my screen door, When y'all should be at home sleep, Instead of at my front porch 15 deep. The jack o' lantern came in handy... I can turn my porch light out like I ain't got no candy. But ain't that somethin? You buy a Halloween costume and a pumpkin, Almost gave your children a heart attack. It's a tradition, but who the hell started that?

Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa.

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

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.

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.

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

Shoot you on the front porch and knock you to the back yard.

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.

I was always feisty, always that kid that would be on the porch with a hairbrush singing or rapping.

I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old battered classic like 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.

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

That's not to say I came from the streets or anything - most of the time I was on my grandmother's back porch. I was kept in a constant state of amniotic fluid.

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

?To go where you're wishing you could go, first you must tie your shoes and step off the porch.

I get on my porch with my guitar, look at my trees, and write a song.

We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

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

My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.

I'm very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here.

A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.

One of these days I will be an old man in a rocking chair on a porch. Wouldn't it be nice to have my whole life there to read and kind of re-live it.

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

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

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.

In summer, I like to sit and compose on the porch, where I can see people come and go.

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

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.

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.

There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.

'The First Time' is a song that I wrote by myself on my front porch, in real-time, as that situation was happening to me.

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.

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.

I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old battered classic like 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.'

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

I don't know if Rush Limbaugh knows the difference between a screen porch and a screen play.

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.

Every gathering of Americans-whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium-is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future.

The culturally specific, in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of their new writing, has seemed to have very little relevance to a much more fast-flowing, abstract, experimental drama that has been emerging in [the UK]. The porch play, not to mention that thing of, Oops, I wasn't loved enough by my father, somehow didn't have the relevance in this country.

Heaven is a house with porch lights.

If you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

Ultimately, my goal is to inspire little brown girls that look like me, that are sitting on the porch wearing cornrows.

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

Eating cold tuna fish out of a tin on a porch while two people are in love across a lake - I think that's desperately lonely.

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.

One of the happiest times of my life, I lived in a tent on a porch on Hawaii.

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.

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

Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!