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  • My white girl Veronica, black girl Monica, Got me celebrating Christma-Hanu-Kwanzaa-kah, Rocking dashikis with a yarmulke. -- Big Sean
  • Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim the plot that's in thy keeping, Thou wilt bless the task when reaping Sweet labour's prize. -- John Stuart Blackie
  • Rocking her gently in his arms, Wulf wondered which of them had it worse. The mother who wouldn't live to see the baby grow, or the father who was damned to watch the baby and all those after him die.' (Wulf) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • I love DJing, and I love rocking out. -- Jonathan Davis
  • I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling. -- Joe Cocker
  • I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking. -- Billy Corgan
  • Any body type is beautiful. It's all about loving what you got and rocking it. -- Meghan Trainor
  • I will be 60 or 70 years old still rocking my Chanel blazer with my hair all coiffed. -- Johnny Weir
  • I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do. -- Dick Dale
  • Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. -- Glenn Turner
  • Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere. -- Gypsy Rose Lee
  • Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. -- Macklemore
  • My shows are always a mix of songs from all my albums with some rocking covers thrown in for fun. -- Miranda Lambert
  • In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those! -- Hunter Hayes
  • I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase. -- Diane Lane
  • There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support. -- AnnaLynne McCord
  • I think my legacy should be that when I started in show business, there wasn't no such thing as rock n' roll. When I started with 'Tutti Frutti,' that's when rock really started rocking. -- Little Richard
  • I'm not drunk onstage, although I've done that a couple of times when I was younger. It's partly just the way I talk - I talk like somebody in a rocking chair. I'm your 150-year-old grandmother. -- Dylan Moran
  • I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. -- Pierre Trudeau
  • Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day. -- Felix Dennis
  • In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it. -- Bruce Springsteen
  • For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.' -- Olivia Munn
  • Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for a new world order and found a new world disorder. If making and conducting foreign policy in today's turbulent environment is difficult, so is practicing journalism. -- Henry Grunwald
  • When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you can't just sit back in a rocking chair and be retired at 35. I'm not a good enough golfer to play golf every day. -- Drew Bledsoe
  • Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes. -- Dan Rather
  • I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how challenging it was. I've always ridden horses, but Western is like riding a horse in a rocking chair, as opposed to English, where you have to balance and hold on with your legs. -- Minka Kelly
  • I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, in terms of your personal satisfaction. In the end, you just want to be good. When you look at something that's really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good. -- Frank Black
  • The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is - before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful - do whatever makes you feel confident. If it's putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it. -- Aimee Mullins
  • Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are referenced in '94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days, and it makes me smile every time I hear it. -- Jason Aldean
  • I serve society by rocking! -- Jack Black
  • I'd love to play a full-out rocking chick. -- Carmen Ejogo
  • My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded. -- Ted Lindsay
  • It's all about loving what you got and rocking it. -- Meghan Trainor
  • After being called cherubic and chubby, I'm rocking a bikini! -- Kelly Osbourne
  • Sometimes when you play music, you start thinking, "This is rocking!" -- Bret McKenzie
  • They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus. -- John Keats
  • That would bring tears to the eyes of a rocking chair. -- Bucky Harris
  • Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me? -- Nancy Thayer
  • It's a great feeling to have the stadium rocking and chanting my name. -- CC Sabathia
  • You can hear the train in those lines; you can feel its rocking motion. -- Alexander McCall Smith
  • I figure the oldies are real close to what rocking country use to be. -- Wolfman Jack
  • It might not look it but rocking in a corset is harder than you think -- Amy Lee
  • I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. -- Grandma Moses
  • Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you in motion but gets you nowhere -- Ashwin Sanghi
  • Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it isn't currently rocking someone else's world. -- Kathryn Budig
  • This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you're rocking -- Grace Jones
  • Listen to any self doubt for anything that needs to be addressed, address it, and keep rocking! -- David Schlussel
  • In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string. -- Brandon Stanton
  • Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. -- Alfred Armand Montapert
  • I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system. -- Mary Robinson
  • Adventure is where you find it, any place, every place, except at home in the rocking chair. -- Wally Byam
  • We'll rock till we drop. We have all agreed this won't be the last time. Everyone's rocking. -- Ronnie Wood
  • Good-bye is always hello to something else. Good-bye/hello, good-bye/hello, like the sound of a rocking chair. -- George Ella Lyon
  • You cannot expect any rational thought from a religious man. He is like a rocking log in water . -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
  • Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing. -- Walt Whitman
  • There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object ... -- Wallis Simpson
  • I also think swimmers are pretty fashion conscious and mos aren't always the best accessory to be rocking. Haha. -- James Magnussen
  • I think a rocking chair should at least be able to play air guitar before you call it rocking. -- Jarod Kintz
  • Worry is like rocking in a rocking chair all day, because it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere. -- Joyce Meyer
  • When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all. -- Dolly Parton
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  • Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset. -- M. Emmet Walsh
  • Use crazy glue and nails to turn a rocking chair into just a chair that looks like a rocking chair. -- Demetri Martin
  • My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government. -- Colonel Sanders
  • The earth is rocking, the skies are riven-- Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven. -- Robert Williams Buchanan
  • My rocking out didn't make me particularly popular with the boys or girls. It wasn't cute or feminine. I was more of a...weirdo. -- Jill Sobule
  • I expect to play golf until I am 90-even longer if anybody figures out a way to swing a club from a rocking chair. -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way. -- Harry S. Truman
  • I remember draft night, I shook David Stern's hand while rocking a red suit with white pinstripes and red gators I've always been a trendsetter. -- Jalen Rose
  • Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, what ever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard. -- Jentezen Franklin
  • There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it. -- Nathanael West
  • Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then. -- Eudora Welty
  • Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. -- Edmund Burke
  • When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom, and so far I've done it. -- Jenny McCarthy
  • We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
  • I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair. -- Beatrice Lillie
  • This country's gonna be rocking, this country's gonna be cooking, this country's gonna be sizzling, and everybody is going to want to be close to [Donald] Trump. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • This country's gonna be rocking, this country's gonna be cooking, this country's gonna be sizzling, and everybody is going to want to be close to [Donald] Trump. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth -- Robert Hayden
  • When I go to the old folks' home, I'm gonna be sitting in a rocking chair, telling everybody how I worked with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau]. -- Brent Spiner
  • Aqualung is one that my brother turned me onto. It wasn't that hard-rocking, but Martin Barre had a really good sound. He knew what he was doing. -- James Hetfield
  • The reality is I'm kind of like an ocean. Everything is calm, calm, calm. I'm good. When the ball goes up in the air, the waves start rocking. -- J. R. Smith
  • When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days. -- Patty Duke
  • I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed.' My mum used to say life isn't for sissies. -- Michael Ignatieff
  • When I was a young child my folks would ask me why I was rocking back and forth and I'd answer "cause of the music in my head!" -- Geoff Zanelli
  • You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called 'Loving,' my first contract job. -- Michael Weatherly
  • I'm going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I'm 75 - and that's just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn't get tangled in my rocking chair. -- Stevie Nicks
  • Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward. -- Martha Graham
  • I never thought in a million years I'd be that healthy girl who wakes up every morning to exercise. After being called 'cherubic and chubby,' I'm rocking a bikini! -- Kelly Osbourne
  • I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I've hit a snag in my writing. -- Mitch Albom
  • Games aren't created by writers rocking up to developers saying 'I have this great game story.' It's about establishing relationships and working hand in hand to create something wonderful. -- Rhianna Pratchett
  • I've been performing since 1955. I'm going to have to keep performing till I die because I'm not going to die in some rocking chair with a big ol' beer belly. -- Dick Dale
  • The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king. -- Billy Wilder
  • The best part of performing is the people. I love interacting with people. My favorite part is the crowd. I love rocking out with the crowd, that's definitely the best part. -- Yelawolf
  • Blake Lively is my style icon, and she always has rocking clothes and shoes. She keeps it really simple with hair and makeup, and I try to do the same thing. -- Kelsea Ballerini
  • I had a great fashion season in September so I told my agent that I would really like to walk the 2015 Victoria's Secret fashion show whilst rocking my short Afro hair. -- Maria Borges
  • There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God. -- Herman Melville
  • When I'm 80 years old and sitting in my rocking chair, I'll be reading Harry Potter. And my family will say to me, 'After all this time?' And I will say, 'Always. -- Alan Rickman
  • I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery. -- Red Adair
  • Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? -- William Butler Yeats
  • I'm the kind of person who would rather rock in my rocking chair when I'm old and regret a few things that I did than to sit there and regret that I never tried.. -- Dolly Parton
  • I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age. -- Nora Johnson
  • The rise of populist parties such as the Five Star Movement in Italy and the Front National in France are rocking the political certainties of the last decades. And that also affects the economy. -- Nicholas Bloom
  • Then the weeks rolled by in a sinister psych ward haze filled with white-coated orderlies and rocking whack-job patients torn straight from some old Jack Nicholson film, all anti-psychotic meds and padded lonely cells... -- Shannon Celebi
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