50 Front Porch Quotes about the Nostalgia of Home

By Stephanie Kirby

Writer, Entrepreneur and Inspirational quote curator

Published September 9, 2023

Check out these Front Porch quotes to remember just how special it is to sit on the front porch, watch the world, and reminisce with family and friends.

The front porch is that place where the privacy of your home and the community meet.

It is an area where you can relax but see the world go by and interact with a wave, a smile, or a conversation with people passing by.

Here are some things people like to do on their front porch:

Read a good book
Sip a drink and just relax
Play a game of checkers
Watch nature from a porch swing
Reminisce about old times with family and friends
Interact with the community as they pass by your home

Take a look at these Front Porch quotes and you’re sure to find one that brings back your own good memories.

Front Porch Quotes From Songs

Take a look at these lyrics from songs about front porches.

1. “There’s a porch swing in Tupelo, in the shade of the south.” — Elton John

2. “Sure can kill these country blues, doing that front porch thing.” — Little Big Town

3. “But, I always go back in my mind to back door, front porch, window.” — Shelby Lynne

4. “Kicking back on the swing, arm wrapped around you, on a porch with a view.” — Jameson Rodgers

5. “I’ve got some oceanfront property in Arizona. From my front porch, you can see the sea.” — George Strait

6. “Winter cares which were already few, were soon forgotten. Just sittin’ on the front porch swing.” — Dolly Parton

7. “My blessings are in front of me; it’s not about the land. I’ll never beat the view of my front porch looking in.” — Lonestar

8. “If the world had a front porch like we did back then, we’d still have our problems, but we’d all be friends.” — Tracy Lawrence

9. “An old man and his wife were holdin’ hands. They were sittin’ on a front porch swing like two young lovers.” — Kenny Rogers

10. “This old porch is just a weathered, gray-hair seventy years of Texas. He’s doing all he can not to give in to the city.” — Robert Earl Keen

Relaxing Front Porch Quotes

Your front porch should be a place to rest and relax, as demonstrated in these quotes.

11. “My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.” — Harold E. Varmus

12. “The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch.” — Merel Shain

13. “I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds.” — Johnny Cash

14. “She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she’d checked out from the library.” — Nicholas Sparks

15. “I’m an old-fashioned guy… I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.” — Johnny Depp

16. “Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp and playing my Hohner harmonica.” — Abraham Lincoln

17. “When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.” — Tommy Shaw

18. “‘Pretend that you’re one hundred years old,’ Alicia would say, ‘and you’re sitting out on your front porch in a rocking chair.’” — Suzanne Brockmann

19. “True luxury is being able to own your time – to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.” — Ashton Kutcher

20. “A best friend is someone with whom you can sit on the porch, without a word, and then walk away with the feeling that it was the best conversation that ever had in your life.” — Paulo Coelho

Memorable Front Porch Quotes

Enjoy these fun and memorable quotes all about front porches.

21. “Porches are America’s lost rooms.” — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

22. “So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise.” — Zoa Neale Hurston

23. “The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.” — Loretta Lynn

24. “I remember myself, age five, sitting on a porch overlooking a very muddy road.” — Joseph Brodsky

25. “A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.” — Robert M. Gates

26. “With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.” — David Mixner

27. “It’s much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch.” — Oprah Winfrey

28. “All the same, she cries on the front porch, and I wish I could go over there and hold her. I wish I could rescue her and hold her in my arms.” — Markus Zusak

29. “Nevertheless, I drove right past my landmark, an antique store which looked to me like an ordinary house with junk piled on the front porch.” — Abraham Verghesee

30. “I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn’t about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard.” — Andy Griffith

Memorable Front Porch Quotes

Enjoy these quotes about front porches that you’ll be sure to remember.

31. “I’m very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here.” — Garth Brooks

32. “I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.” — Robert Lansing

33. “When you keep the porch light on for the prodigal child, you do what God does every single moment.” — Max Lucado

34. “Then Frog and Toad went out onto the front porch to wait for the mail. They sat there, feeling happy together.” — Arnold Lobel

35. “Grandma’s on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.” — John Mellencamp

36. “Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers if we are willing to be where we are.” — Mark Nepo

37. “Yeah, I could go rock on the back porch and do crossword puzzles – but I’ve got six kids, ages 9 to 16, and someone in the family should work. That’s me.” — David Duffield

38. “I slip off my flats and walk down the front porch steps, while Mother calls out for me to put my shoes back on, threatening ringworm, mosquito, encephalitis.” — Kathryn Stockett

39. “When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o’clock at night; that’s when it started getting dark.” — Daisy Fuentes

40. “Nowadays, people are so jeezled up. If they took some chamomile tea and spent more time rocking on the porch in the evening listening to the liquid song of the hermit thrush, they might enjoy life more.” — Tasha Tudor

More Front Porch Quotes

Your front porch is a great place for memories to be made.

41. “Heaven is a house with porch lights.” — Ray Bradbury

42. “His laugh is made of porch swings and lemonade.” — Augusten Burroughs

43. “I’m not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman’s home with a drool cup.” — Tom Brokaw

44. “I was always feisty, always that kid that would be on the porch with a hairbrush singing or rapping.” — Missy Elliot

45. “So working outside, whether in the garden or the woods or on the front porch, is a sacrament.” — Robert Michael Pyle

46. “I used to sit on the porch of our home and listen to my grandfather tell stories as he smoked one of three daily cigars.” — Marco Rubio

47. “We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by.” — Jimmy Wales

48. “One thing I learned there on that beautiful front porch was if I wanted to be successful if I wanted to do important work one day, I would have to increase my capacity.” — Chip Gaines

49. “I went to the little church in the country after ten years in the city. And part of my dream was to sit on people’s front porches with glasses of iced tea, and all that happened.” — Barbara Brown Taylor

50. “I would love it if, even for one day, you could walk through a neighborhood and see an Asian guy sitting on his stoop, then you look across the street and see a black guy and a white guy sitting on their porches, and a Mexican dude walking by.” — Eminem