Rocking Chairs Quotes

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.

I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

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

I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.

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.

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

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.

Hell, I’m an old man. I’m 70 years old. I’m supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

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].

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.

Worry is like rocking in a rocking chair all day, because it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.

We don’t propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

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.

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.

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.

That would bring tears to the eyes of a rocking chair.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I don’t like to dwell on the past.