You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game.

I write our names on the page.What of it, if the paper will be burned?I write our names in the sand.What of it, if the shore will be washed by waves?I write our names on trees that will be cutand benches that will be painted,but what of it?I will keep on writing our namesbecause in this world of ephemera, You and I are the only constant.

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.

I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.

One major factor that will prevent your dreams from becoming nightmares is learning to vacate your spectators’ seat and then taking steps towards the players' bench! You've got to play to win!

When we feel we have benched ourselves for too long, we must loosen up the unessential, get over our endless cringing and make a bold leap to the glowing stars of our dream. ("Steaming ahead" )

The judicial wheel is rounded with equality, oiled with honour and functions smoothly with honesty – principally when both members of the Bench and Bar shoulder their responsibilities seriously.

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace

No king has a throne more beautiful than a bench covered with the autumn leaves!