Hammocks Quotes

• Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Rocks
  • Hammocks

• I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a rainy night? A hammock in a freshly mown backyard? A verandah overlooking the summer sea? Good choices, every one. But I have no doubt that they are all merely displacements, sentimental attempts to replicate the warmth and snugness of my mother's lap.

  

  Michael Dirda
  • Environment
  • Choices
  • Imagine

• They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common fate of the American, whether he sails the sea in the North, gallops over the plain in the West, or sleeps in his hammock in the forests of Brazil.

  

  George Amos Dorsey
  • Common
  • Forests
  • Immorality

• You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Wonder
  • Curtains
  • Knittin

• The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Stories
  • Censorious
  • Yeats's poems

• In the winter, I read next to a wood-burning stove. In the summer, we have a place up in Michigan where I like to read in a hammock. It's almost entirely hidden by cedar trees and right up by the water. You can climb in there and see nothing but water and be seen by nobody. It's perfect.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Perfect
  • Winter
  • Climb