Picnics Quotes

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  • Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.5406, Delphi Classics
  • We talk about God as though he was like a somebody. We ask him to bless our nation, or save our Queen, or give us a fine day for the picnic. And we actually expect him to be on our side in an election or war even though our opponents are also God's children.

    Queens   Children   War  
    "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.
  • If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

    Time   Picnics   Ants  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Now, now," Bast said. "It's not so bad." "Right," I said. "We're stuck in Washington, D.C. We have two days to make it to Arizona and stop a god we don't know how to stop. And if we can't, we'll never see our dad or Amos again, and the world might end." "That's the spirit!" Bast said brightly. "Now, let's have a picnic.

    Dad   Two   World  
    Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion
  • Nothing's better than a picnic.

    Picnics  
  • Some parents were nervous about how they would portray everything, ... At a picnic the moms put on for the team and coaches, I said that all the reality shows are turning around and showing good things, not bad things.

    Mom   Team   Reality  
  • Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)

    Games   Play   Daddy  
    Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.173, Random House
  • Even here, in the U.S., I walk my daughter's dog and I look for interesting people sitting at a picnic table and I walk over with my white hair and I ask, "Would you mind if I sat and rested here for a minute?" Nobody would refuse that.

    Daughter   Dog   Hair  
  • Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her pack. She didn't like discomfort; even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes. Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere.

    Running   Home   Cupcakes  
    "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler". Book by L. Konigsburg, 1967.
  • The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner. Big family gatherings, and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I’m doing good.

    "Isn’t She Deneuvely?". Interview with Krista Smith, www.vanityfair.com. December 2008.
  • The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

  • We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

  • I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

  • I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic.

  • My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

    Cute   Real   Kissing  
  • Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

  • You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.

    Believe   World   Picnics  
    "The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)". Book by Anais Nin, 1969.
  • Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet.

    Pain   Party   Gay  
  • When you eat, I want you to think of God, of the holiness of hands that feed us, of the provision we are given every time we eat. When you eat bread and you drink wine, I want you to think about the body and the blood every time, not just when the bread and wine show up in church, but when they show up anywhere- on a picnic table or a hardwood floor or a beach.

    Beach   Wine   Thinking  
  • Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.

    Player   Games   Idaho  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.

    Source: www.finalcall.com
  • I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!

  • How did people get over this? They obviously did. Every day someone fell in love with the wrong person and had to pack up all their fragile, misguided hopes and unwanted affection, and move on to the next picnic table.

    Moving   People   Tables  
  • Did you hear this big scandal? Eight female badminton players were expelled from the Olympics for trying to lose on purpose. So tragically, they'll never have another chance to play badminton unless they get invited to a picnic.

    Funny   Player   Eight  
  • Uh, stay fat people - That's my motto. It's no picnic!

    Loss   People   Picnics  
  • It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better.

  • I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook.

    Funny   Notebook   Father  
  • I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.

  • And I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle— And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret.

    Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.62, The Floating Press
  • Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully, through our own abandoned story drafts. After writing twenty pages about a harmonious family picnic, say, or a well-received rock concert, we discover that a story without a complication flounders, no matter how lovely the prose. A story needs a point of departure, a place from which the character can discover something, transform himself, realize a truth, reject a truth, right a wrong, make a mistake, come to terms.

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