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  • When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

  • Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.

    Horse   Thinking   Race  
  • I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques, so there are a lot of old rocking chairs... My friends call my home the vortex because nobody wants to leave.

    Flower   Home   Want  
  • The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.

  • Adventure is where you find it, any place, every place, except at home in the rocking chair.

    Travel   Home   Adventure  
  • Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

    Sports   Baseball   Games  
    "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2005.
  • If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued, frightened-to-death rocking chair, before I drove to wherever the beast's lair was - and then pulled the pistol's foreskin back, and then enjoyed the orgasm of the crushed trigger.

    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1958). “Lolita”, Perigee Trade
  • I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how challenging it was. I've always ridden horses, but Western is like riding a horse in a rocking chair, as opposed to English, where you have to balance and hold on with your legs.

    "Minka Kelly Interview CHARLIE’S ANGELS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 25, 2011.
  • I'm the kind of person who would rather rock in my rocking chair when I'm old and regret a few things that I did than to sit there and regret that I never tried.

    Regret   Rocks   Kind  
  • When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you can't just sit back in a rocking chair and be retired at 35. I'm not a good enough golfer to play golf every day.

  • Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.

    Eudora Welty (1956). “The Golden Apples”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

    Moses, Grandma (1952). “Grandma Moses: My Life's History”, New York] : Harper
  • Good-bye is always hello to something else. Good-bye/hello, good-bye/hello, like the sound of a rocking chair.

    Bye   Sound   Hello  
  • Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

    Sunset   Men   Years  
  • There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.

    Moving   Reflection   Air  
  • I'm going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I'm 75 - and that's just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn't get tangled in my rocking chair.

    Dream   Tangled   Singing  
  • There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.

    Book   Autumn   Winter  
  • My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.

  • Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you in motion but gets you nowhere

    Ashwin Sanghi (2010). “Chanakya's Chant”, p.391, Westland
  • He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.

    Crush   Children   Past  
    "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967.
  • In life, you gotta do something. And the medical journals keep on saying if you've got a goal or some passion in life, you'll outlive all the other guys who - the bank manager that retired. They gave him a rocking chair and he rocked himself to death. So you gotta have a passion, whatever it happens to be. Whether it's this or something else, it doesn't matter, as long as it's a reason to get out of bed every morning, as my accountant of 50 years keeps on saying.

    Morning   Passion   Years  
  • Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

  • What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don’t believe anything is true simply because you can’t logically prove what’s true, you won’t do anything. You won’t be anything. You’ll end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. It’s an old philosophical problem.

  • I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.

    Home   Years   Half  
    "Oil Well Firefighter Adair Dies" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 9, 2004.
  • That would bring tears to the eyes of a rocking chair.

    Baseball   Eye   Tears  
  • I don't like to dwell on the past.

  • When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau].

    Home   Sitting   Chairs  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age.

    Golf   Thinking   Age  
  • I'm not drunk onstage, although I've done that a couple of times when I was younger. It's partly just the way I talk - I talk like somebody in a rocking chair. I'm your 150-year-old grandmother.

  • Use crazy glue and nails to turn a rocking chair into just a chair that looks like a rocking chair.

    Crazy   Glue   Nails  
    Twitter post from Jun 24, 2012
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