Picnics famous quotes

Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.
-- Alexander Smith

#Nature #Funeral #Picnics

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
-- Alice Walker

#Tea #Picnics #Literature

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
-- Barry Eichengreen

#Depth #Unemployment #Picnics

I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.
-- Bess Truman

#People #Picnics

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.
-- Bill Anderson

#Doors #Lunch #Picnics

I'm not easy to live with and I know that it's true. However, you're no picnic either, babe, and that's one of the things I liked about you.
-- Don Henley

#Quality #Picnics #Easy

As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.
-- Elaine Stritch

#Picnics #Certain #Walking

No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Fate #Eden #Picnics

Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.
-- Elizabeth Enright

#Father #House #Picnics

It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better.
-- Franny Billingsley

#Principles #Picnics #Taste

Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.
-- Gary Barlow

#Anger #Picnics #Annoying

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
-- Georg Brandes

#Summer #Picnics #Woods

Happiness: "You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic."
-- Gretchen Rubin

#Weather #Picnics #Positive Marriage

You bring your own weather to the picnic.
-- Harlan Coben

#Marriage #Weather #Picnics

I am not afraid to appear in Israel, although when I come to a place like Israel, I know it's not a picnic by the Thames. I am aware of the tension and it saddens me.
-- Ian Anderson

#Israel #Picnics #Thames

Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic.
-- Jane Wagner

#Picnics #Life Is

If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.
-- Jonathan Cainer

#Happiness #Earth #Picnics

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.
-- Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#Theatre #Essentials #Picnics

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.
-- Josh Lanyon

#Moving #People #Picnics

I adore war. It is like a big picnic but without the objectivelessness of a picnic. I have never been more well or more happy.
-- Julian Grenfell

#War #Picnics #Bigs

A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.
-- Karen Russell

#Feelings #Generations #Picnics

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.
-- Kate Winslet

#Children #World #Picnics

Like the end of a picnic, all the weenies will be roasted.
-- Kim Harrison

#Picnics #Ends

They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it.
-- Larry Nelson

#Parent #Picnics #Nostalgia

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
-- Marie Dressler

#Time #Picnics #Ants

If you’re going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, you’d better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them.
-- Paul Orfalea

#Picnics #Flaws #Like You

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!
-- Phyllis Bottome

#Picnics #Were Not Meant To Be #Caterpillars

I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.
-- Richard Brautigan

#Dream #Rain #Picnics

The examined life is no picnic.
-- Robert Fulghum

#Picnics #Life Is #Self-examination

Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.
-- Sara Genn

#Failure #Ants #Picnics

Uh, stay fat people - That's my motto. It's no picnic!
-- Seth Rogen

#Loss #People #Picnics

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?
-- Tom Barrett

#Rain #Picnics #Crops

I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.
-- Will Estes

#Nice #Valentine #Picnics

Nothing's better than a picnic.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Picnics

1994 was the nadir for heavy metal, although the rest of the '90s weren't much of a picnic either.
-- Martin Popoff

#Nadir #Picnics #Heavy Metal

The act of writing itself isn't outrageous. And the institution subtly and insidiously works on you in such a way that though you seem to have freedom you become a servant. Your main issue is to get promoted to the next thing. Or get invited to a picnic. Or get tenure. Or get laid.
-- Gerald Stern

#Writing #Issues #Picnics

Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.
-- Hudson Stuck

#Thinking #Climbing #Picnics