Picnics Quotes - Page 4

• 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, Innocence

  'Out of a Book' in 'Orion III' (ed. Rosamund Lehmann et al, 1946)

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• When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.

  Charles A. Murray

  Greatness, Europe, Ideas

  Charles A. Murray (2006). “In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State”, Aei Press

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• Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.

  Dean Koontz

  Youth Of Today, Effort, Generations

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• Oh, you need Alan to betray Nick and then you'll steal Nick's powers and kill them both," said Mae. "Great idea. Hey, can i come? I'll bring a picnic lunch if you promise not to let blood get on the sandwiches.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Blood, Ideas, Lunch

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• One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn't know it. I mean, there's little blood there and stuff like that. …We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a satanic altar.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Mean, Blood, Midnight

  "'I was a teenage witch': Tea Party candidate". Interview with David Mark, www.abc.net.au. September 21, 2010.

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• And what about us? Do you want a vampire boyfriend?" He laughed bitterly. "Because I forsee many romantic picnics in our future. You, drinking a virgin piña colada. Me, drinking the blood of a virgin.

  Cassandra Clare

  Drinking, Blood, Vampire

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• Quinn's First Law of Investing is never to buy anything whose price you can't follow in the newspapers. An investment without a public marketplace attracts the fabulists the way picnics attract ants. Stock brokers and financial planners can tell you anything they want, because no one really knows what's true. The First Corollary to Quinn's First Law states that, even when the price is in the newspapers, you shouldn't buy anything too complex to explain to the average 12-year-old.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Money, Average, Years

  Jane Bryant Quinn (1997). “Making the Most of Your Money”, p.789, Simon and Schuster

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• 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, Bigs, Adore

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• The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV.

  Kim Kardashian

  Stay Strong, Home, Perfect

  "Kim talks about her sex tape". Interview with Scott Tenorman, metro.co.uk. January 30, 2008.

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• Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it - how do you create something from nothing? Anyone who's creative understands that that's the magic, that's the alchemy.

  Billy Corgan

  Dream, Eye, Creating

  "A Conversation with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Ocean, Sea, Suffering

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• Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Party, Musical, Comedy

  Joyce Carol Oates (2007). “The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982”, Ecco

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• One of the delights beyond the grasp of youth is that of Not Going. Not to have an invitation for the dance, the party, the picnic, the excursion is to be diminished. To have an invitation and then not to be able to go -- oh cursed spite! Now I do not care the rottenest fig whether I receive an invitation or not. After years of illusion, I finally decided I was missing nothing by Not Going. I no longer care whether I am missing anything or not.

  J. B. Priestley

  Party, Years, Missing

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• I really do believe that all of you are at the beginning of a wonderful journey.As you start traveling down that road of life, remember this: There are never enough comfort stops. The places you're going to are never on the map. And once you get that map out, you won't be able to re-fold it no matter how smart you are. So forget the map, roll down the windows, and whenever you can pull over and have picnic with a pig. And if you can help it never fly as cargo.

  Jim Henson

  Smart, Believe, Journey

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• I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it, what are picnics but outcroppings of instinct? No one really enjoys them or expects to enjoy them, but with the first warm days some prehistoric instinct takes us out into the woods, to fry potatoes over a strangling wood fire or spend the next week getting grass stains out of our clothes. It must be instinct; every atom of intelligence warns us to stay at home near the refrigerator.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Home, Thinking, Next Week

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Karen Armstrong

  Queens, Children, War

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• ... he was sunset against the mountains, strong, vibrant, dangerous, and yet somehow sheltering, protective. And married. Picnic, meet rain.

  Devon Monk

  Strong, Rain, Sunset

  Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.61, Penguin

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• It was no picnic despite what anyone might say later . . . . Most of us were pretty scared all the bloody time; you only felt happy when the battle was over and you were on your way home, then you were safe for a bit, anyway.

  Colin S. Gray

  Home, Battle, Safe

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• The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic on a doubtful day, they will demand a dogmatic answer as to whether it will be fine or wet, and be disappointed in you when you cannot be sure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Nature, Children, Science

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.379, Psychology Press

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• Clary grinned. "A picnic? It's a little late for Central Park, don't you think? It's full of - " He waved a hand. "Faeries. I know." "I was going to say muggers," said Clary. "Though I pity the mugger who goes after you." "That is a wise attitude, and I commend you for it," said Jace, looking gratified.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wise, Attitude, Thinking

  "City of Bones". Book by Cassandra Clare, March 27, 2007.

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• July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden - first sweet corn on the cob dripping with butter, first tomatoes dead ripe and sunwarm, string beans, squash, crisp cucumbers. July can also be hard and shiny, brassy and sharp. Some days are like copper pennies in the sunlight.

  Jean Hersey

  Sweet, Beach, Garden

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• There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned the territory before you get there. And you know, in the Mahayana Buddhist situation it even becomes as extreme as saying; 'life is essentially a preparation for death, a studying of the maps of a learning of the skills a packing of your picnic basket so that when you get out there and demons are sniffing you up one side and down the other you don't bungle your mantras'.

  Terence McKenna

  Buddhist, Mean, Skills

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• 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.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Cute, Real, Kissing

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• Heavily and hypnotically,with her soul flattening itself back like the ears of a hissing cat,Kizzy leaned in and drank of Jack Husk's full,moist mouth,and his red,red lips were hungry against hers,drinking her in return.Their eyes closed.Fingers clutched at collars and hair,at the picnic blanket,at the grass.And as they sank down,pinning their shadows beneath them,the horizon tipped on its side,and slowly,thickly,hour by hour,the day spilled out and ebbed away. It was Kizzy's first kiss, and maybe it was her last, and it was delicious.

  Laini Taylor

  Drinking, Cat, Eye

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.50, Scholastic Inc.

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• I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to tour the fort and wander through it. And all of that time, I never knew anything about the presence of black soldiers on the island. And so, for me, this was a way of trying to tell another history, a lost or a forgotten or a little-known history about these black soldiers who played an important part in American history.” Trethewey said.
  Coincidentally, she was born “exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Memorial Day, Children, Islands

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