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An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock. -- Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock. -- Allen West
The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories. -- Hector Hugh Munro
My goal involves a hammock, a vegetable patch, and a solar-powered house. And I hope to eventually get there. -- Miranda Kerr
We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence. -- Paul Ryan
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Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity. -- Peggy Noonan
While sleeping in a hammock, with the touch of a warm wind we remember why we are in love with the life! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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
People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms. -- Alice Walker
Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament. -- Victor Hugo
For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad. But I could never find me a double hammock -- Frank Sinatra
The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in the dictionary, but it should be. [Of lying in hammocks] -- Dan Kieran
I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head. -- Devon Werkheiser
I was studying my 'Bold and Beautiful' script the other day, lying in a hammock, when one of my Siberian tigers walked up and grabbed it out of my hand - she wanted to play. See - teeth marks! -- Tippi Hedren
I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you. -- JoJo
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
I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don't understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday. -- Tom Hodgkinson
We enjoy telling ourselves that we will soon be gods, masters of the planet, manipulating the genes of living creatures and rebuilding the world at a nano-level as we lie back in our hammocks, attended by our robot servants. I don't believe a word of it, and I'm not sure many of us do. -- Paul Kingsnorth
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
What is the average type of a counterfeit church? A hammock, attached on one side to the cross, and, on the other, held and swung to and fro by the forefinger of Mammon; its freight of nominal Christians elegantly moaning meanwhile over the evils of the times, and not at ease unless fanned by eloquence and music, and sprinkled by social adulations into perfumed, unheroic slumber. -- Joseph Cook
Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers. -- Anais Nin

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