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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
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
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'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'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
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
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 am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence. -- Valerie June
There's a good chance that in 40 years, after the floods, people zipping by on scavenged jetpacks with their scavenged baseball caps on backwards, I will be in my rocking chair saying bitterly, 'I remember when 'all right' was two words.' -- Elizabeth McCracken
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
That would bring tears to the eyes of a rocking chair. -- Bucky Harris
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
Adventure is where you find it, any place, every place, except at home in the rocking chair. -- Wally Byam
There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object ... -- Wallis Simpson
Good-bye is always hello to something else. Good-bye/hello, good-bye/hello, like the sound of a rocking chair. -- George Ella Lyon
Worry is like rocking in a rocking chair all day, because it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere. -- Joyce Meyer
I think a rocking chair should at least be able to play air guitar before you call it rocking. -- Jarod Kintz
When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all. -- Dolly Parton
My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government. -- Colonel Sanders
Use crazy glue and nails to turn a rocking chair into just a chair that looks like a rocking chair. -- Demetri Martin
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
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
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
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
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
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'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
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
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'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

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