Front Porches Quotes:

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

- Lil Wayne

topic: Yards, Porch, Front Porches

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.

- Dan Stevens

topic: Farewell, Positivity, Boots, Front Porches, Porch

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 the first time ever, I feel like I can do it. I’ve survived everything I’ve had to so far. I’m still standing here.

- Markus Zusak

source: Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.124, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Moving, Views, World, Front Porches, Porch

American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.

- Peter Ustinov

topic: Drinking, Beer, Democracy, Front Porches

Edward Abbey said you must brew your own beer; kick in you Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it. I already had a good start. As a teenager in rural Maine, after we came to America, I had learned hunting, fishing, and trapping in the wilderness. My Maine mentors had long ago taught me to make home brew. I owned a rifle, and I'd already built a log cabin. The rest should be easy. I thought I'd give it a shot.

- Bernd Heinrich

source: Bernd Heinrich (1994). “A Year in the Maine Woods”, Addison-Wesley Longman

topic: Teenager, Home, Beer, Abbey, Log Cabins

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

topic: Inspirational, Children, Halloween, Inspirational Halloween, Front Porches

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

- Robert M. Gates

topic: Crazy, Book, Reading, Wild And Crazy, Front Porches

Remember the hours after September 11th when we came together as one to answer the attack against our homeland. We drew strength when our firefighters ran upstairs and risked their lives so that others might live; when rescuers rushed into smoke and fire at the Pentagon; when the men and women of Flight 93 sacrificed themselves to save our nation's Capitol; when flags were hanging from front porches all across America, and strangers became friends. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

- John F. Kerry

topic: Men, America, Fire, September 11th, Upstairs

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

- Vincent Bugliosi

source: "Excerpt: 'Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy'" by Vincent Bugliosi, abcnews.go.com. May 15, 2007.

topic: Light, Waiting, Leaving, Front Porches, Theorists

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?

- Kam

source: Song: Holiday Madness, Album: Neva Again, 1993

topic: Children, Halloween, Rap, Jack O Lanterns, Brat

How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.

- Edward Abbey

topic: Beer, Beef, Cabins, Front Porches, Porch

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

topic: Song, Sister In Law, Giving, Nickels, Front Porches

I showed her how I'd been making tiny cuts in my skin to let the badness and the pain leak out. They were shallow at first, and short, like claw marks made by a desperate cat that wanted to hid under the front porch. Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care.

- Laurie Halse Anderson

topic: Hurt, Pain, Cat, Front Porches, Self Injury

Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad, 'that makes a very good letter.'Then Frog and Toad went out onto the front porch to wait for the mail. They sat there, feeling happy together.

- Arnold Lobel

topic: Book, Waiting, Feelings, Front Porches, Happy Together

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

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Sweet, Marijuana, Two, Harmonicas, Pipe Smoking

This is my life; these are my fingerprints; I'm unique; this is what I want to do. You worry about your own front porch and what's happening in your own world.

- Kelly Clarkson

source: Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

topic: Unique, Worry, World, Fingerprints, Front Porches

One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.

- James Earl Jones

topic: Uncles, College, Kansas, Randy, Boeing

The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

- Andre Leon Talley

topic: Grandmother, Orange, Doors, Orange County, Durham

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

source: "The Queen of Daytime TV". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 25, 1991.

topic: Funny, Life, Success, Million Dollars, Front Porches

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," Sal said.

- Dean Koontz

topic: White, Black, Sound, Front Porches

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

- James Lee Burke

source: Twitter post from Jun 06, 2013

topic: Grief, Mess, Front Porches

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. On the other hand, usually I felt lame for no particular reason. This time I really had a reason to feel lame.

- Meg Cabot

topic: Hands, Feelings, Lame, Front Porches, Big Surprises

She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Book, Reading, Coffee, Front Porches, Porch

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 on one knee. Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle; the whole town came and our mammas cried. And you said "I do.", and I did, too. Take me home where we met so many years before; we'll rock our babies on the very front porch. After all this time, you and I. And I'll be eighty-seven you'll be eighty-nine, I'll still look at you like the stars that shine. In the sky. Oh, my my my.

- Taylor Swift

topic: True Love, Baby, Stars, Take Me Back, Front Porches

"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, "I'm not so sure that you should go by my example." "Why not?" "Because I have my regrets," he said. "Also, I'm a guy. And guys do different stuff." "Like ride bikes?" I said. "No," he replied. "Like have food fights. And break stuff. And set off firecrackers on people's front porches. And..." "Girls can't set off firecrackers on people's front porches?" "They can," he said... "But they're smart enough not to. That's the difference."

- Sarah Dessen

source: "Along for the Ride". Book by Sarah Dessen, June 16, 2009.

topic: Girl, Regret, Smart, Along For The Ride, Firecracker

Iowa's the worst. Iowa's just nothing, just flat as far as you can see. It's the only state in the country where you can stand on your front porch and actually watch your dog run away for three days.

- Greg Fitzsimmons

topic: Running, Country, Dog, Front Porches

I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.

- Andy Griffith

topic: Stupid, Yards, Proud, Southerner, Front Porches

I went to the little church in the country after ten years in the city. And part of my dream was to sit on people's front porches with glasses of iced tea, and all that happened. I was able to send birthday cards to everyone in the parish and able to know everyone who was there on Sunday by name. And that was what I'd been looking for.

- Barbara Brown Taylor

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Dream, Country, Sunday, Parish, Front Porches

Everywhere, women gathered in knots, huddled in groups on front porches, on sidewalks, even in the middle of the streets, telling each other that no news is good news, trying to comfort each other, trying to present a brave appearance.

- Margaret Mitchell

source: Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.162, Hamilton Books

topic: Brave, Trying, Comfort, Front Porches

My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. I took a picture. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned. I saw this picture the other day for the first time in years and realized how photographing life within a hundred yards of my front porch had helped me focus on everything I cared about.

- Larry Towell

source: "10 Photographers Share ‘An Image That Changed Everything’ And The Stories Behind Them" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

topic: Tired, Years, Wife, Walnuts, Walnut Trees

I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.

- Johnny Cash

topic: Bird, Cabins, Ponds, Birdsong, Cabin In The Woods

I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you.

- Barack Obama

source: President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

topic: Powerful, Victory, Never Forget, Working Man, Des Moines

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

- David Letterman

topic: Trying, Today, Sitting, Front Porches, Whittling

Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.

- Bert Lance

source: 1993 Of the Bert Lance Toe Test which he devised for his nine months in the Carter administration. In the Washington Post, 6 Oct.

topic: Good Day, Names, House, Front Porches, Have A Good Day

We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?

- Jimmy Wales

topic: New York, Cities, Cheerful, Front Porches

Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.

- John Mellencamp

topic: Religious, Grandma, Hands, Front Porches, Porch

Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.

- Bob Dylan

source: Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

topic: New Orleans, Ideas, Good Ideas, Long Lines, Roman Catholic

Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington -- it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. ...This is your victory.

- Barack Obama

source: President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

topic: Government, Victory, Backyards, Des Moines, Charleston

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

topic: Children, Adults, Doe, Front Porches

[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on your front porch. Creating your name helps to build a sense of place within your neighborhood as well as pride in your accomplishments. By naming your farm you give it a life of its own. Be creative and come up with a name that inspires and makes people smile, like my friend Laura's "Wish We Had Acres," the Fairy Tale inspired "Jack's Bean Stalk" or my "Urban Farm.

- Greg Peterson

topic: Pride, Names, Creating, Make People Smile, Front Porches