quotes about park benches Great quotes about the joy of sitting on park benches with a beautiful view

The following is a collection of sayings about park benches and what this simple little seat means to so many people.

1. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops. - Maya Angelou

2. A bench in the street can be a good writer because all kind of material comes onto it like a heavy rain! ― Mehmet Murat ildan

3. Always find a time to sit on a humid autumn bench to feed the poor birds or to think the dying leaves! ― Mehmet Murat ildan

4. There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me.― Joyce Rachelle

5. They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle. - Haruki Murakami

6. There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands. - O'Henry

7. When I'm by myself, I'm not threatening at all. I get many more invitations than I would if I were traveling with anyone else, especially with a man. But I'm rarely alone. I sit on a park bench and I'm not alone because I pick a park bench where somebody interesting is sitting. - Rita Gelman

8. I can't get enough of London! I love all the picnic benches, the old-school phone booths and parks in the middle of the city.  - Jessica Lowndes

9. My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize - Aaron Neville

10. When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on, how I would long for the lunch hour, when I would be able to escape the torture of the office and stroll over to the churchyard and into the comforting wooden embrace of one of its benches.  - Tom Hodgkinson

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11. I remember sitting on a bench in New York and sobbing and realizing that my ambition to be a singer was making me selfish - I was a mother with two children, and I needed a backup plan. - Rebecca Ferguson

12. Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can take time out from the bustle and brouhaha of the city, and simply sit and watch and reflect. - Tom Hodgkinson

13. My favourite pastime used to be sitting on a park bench watching people. But after 'Jagged Little Pill,' the eyeballs turned, and I was the watched one. -  Alanis Morissette

14. You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically. - Omari Hardwick

15. Tell a man that there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he will believe you, but tell him that a park bench has wet paint upon it and he will have to touch it just to make sure. - Angie

16. Stephen Emms was walking in Hampstead Heath a few years ago and discovered a bench with the inscription 'They Could Do With A Bench Here.' - Bonnie Alter

17. Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends - Anon

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