I look at the car park and myself and Dave Watson come in with our old cars, and these young lads come in with their new Porches. I think that society has changed, there seems to be a lack of respect nowadays.
Quotes about porches (11 Quotes)
Neither walls, theatres, porches, nor senseless equipage, make states, but men who are able to rely upon themselves.
It is a tragic case of overloading the back porches, ... use common sense.
People in, say, Georgia aren't sitting on the front porches singing anymore. They're inside in the air-conditioning, watching cable like everybody else.
Remember the hours after September 11th when we came together as one to answer the attack against our homeland. We drew strength when our firefighters ran up stairs and risked their lives so that others might live when rescuers rushed into smoke and fire at the Pentagon when the men and women of Flight 93 sacrificed themselves to save our nation's Capitol when flags were hanging from front porches all across America, and strangers became friends. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.
If there is no land, there are porches or windows, balconies or small green spaces attached to houses.
The codes in place to guide the construction of porches and balconies are to help keep the public safe. Our staff works hard every day to ensure that the buildings you live, work, play and learn in are safe. Probably the most important thing I tell people is not to overload the deck.
Beautiful places, they were. They had porches in front, high ceilings in the apartments. You could watch the West Albany fireworks. But that was long before your time.
The danger is actually worse when the water goes away, because you have hazardous materials more concentrated in muck and dust. People will more readily come back, and will try to clean their homes or porches. And they'll have toxic dust they'll be sweeping around. And they'll inhale it and ingest it.
My customers usually have to get a ladder to get it their paper off the roof or out of the trees. I only hit one out of 100 front porches.
Yes, I heard my people singing--in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews--and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.