“CALLING
Wind rocks
the porch chair

somebody home.”

“O Mary, go and call the cattle home,
And call the cattle home,
And call the cattle home
Across the sands of Dee;
The western wind was wild and dank with foam,
And all alone went she.”

Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist

“Somebody has been sitting in my chair!”

Robert Southey book Goldilocks and the Three Bears

“I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.”

Graham Greene book The Power and the Glory

“Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

“Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

“I think it is time for us to ensconce him in the rocking chair up there that we reserve for senior members of the chamber.”

Francis Escudero (1969) Filipino politician

“Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over New York City, and somebody says, `Let's call Desmond,' and somebody else says,'Why bother? He's probably home reading the Encyclopedia Britannica.”

Paul Desmond (1924–1977) American jazz musician

“The fact is, winding and dusting and fixing somebody else's clock is boring.”

Brian Hayes (scientist) (1900) American scientist, columnist and author

“If you don't have ability, you wind up playing in a rock band.”

Buddy Rich (1917–1987) Jazz drummer and bandleader