Backyards quotes
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At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.
-- Alain Ducasse -
I have a garden in my backyard that's completely organic, which I'm very proud of.
-- Ariana Grande -
At the Mirage Sportsbook, you can get a line on 2 kid playing wiffleball in the backyard in Minnesota
-- Artie Lange -
My dad never pushed me but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me.
-- Bart Starr -
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I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it.
-- Brandi Chastain -
We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.
-- Brennan Manning -
There are massive stacks of bad choices in my backyard. Haven't finished cleaning the place up but I'm workin' on it and clearly I have not yet reached enlightenment for more than a fleeting moment but I'm tryin' and I found somethin' here I want ya to have. It's not much just a story but it's all I've got so take it.
-- Buddy Wakefield -
Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.
-- Cathie Pelletier -
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Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.
-- Christian Wiman -
Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
-- Colin Powell -
I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.
-- Daniel Keyes -
I poop in the backyard... I wear disposable diapers.
-- David Duchovny -
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I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.
-- Fred Durst -
When the homebrewers stop entering the profession, and the backyard breweries are squeezed out, then it will become stagnant.
-- Greg Noonan -
In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.
-- Helmut Newton -
Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.
-- Ilana Mercer -
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Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.
-- Jean Burden -
Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Having a Southwest Green in my backyard is a huge advantage for me on tour. I am pleasantly surprised just how true the ball rolls and reacts to chip and pitch shots. I love my Southwest Green.
-- Jim Furyk -
The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.
-- John Tukey -
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I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.
-- Josh Duhamel -
I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.
-- Josh Fox -
Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention.
-- Larry Winget -
Anyway, I'm sure the guy lives a million miles away." "Or he could live right in your backyard. You never know." I nodded, keeping a poker face, even though the idea of Sir Leo living in my backyard was extremely appealing.
-- Mari Mancusi -
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It is true [the risk for travel is greater] for we now operate in a global market. Business travelers are conducting business all over the world as if they are conducting business in their own backyards.
-- Mark Hall -
Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?
-- Matsuo Basho -
I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.
-- Matt Dillon -
We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?'
-- Melinda Gates -
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Peace begins in the kitchens and pantries, gardens and backyards, where our food is grown and prepared. The energies of nature and the infinite universe are absorbed through the foods we eat and are transmuted into our thoughts and actions.
-- Michio Kushi -
The world of your photography is limitless-just like your backyard.
-- Nick Kelsh -
There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.
-- Patrick Rothfuss -
Backyards are as Australian as the Hills Hoists they host, and as individual as those who work and play in them. Whether haven, pantry or playground, they all tell a story.
-- Pete Munro -
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I'm out there having as good a time as I did in the backyard since I was five-years-old.
-- Philip Rivers -
I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.
-- Richard Bode -
Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.
-- Russell Conwell -
Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.
-- Sara Genn -
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Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.
-- Stephen King -
If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with
-- Tony Kushner -
I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."
-- Frank Sinatra, Jr. -
When sociobiologists start ***** in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start seeming more persuasive.
-- Laura Kipnis -
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With Die Hard it was just something that I, you know, I grew up with those movies. I made a Die Hard movie with my friends in my backyard during high school. It was terrible.
-- Len Wiseman -
Small steps taken by many people in their backyards add up.
-- Nancy Knowlton -
I skied on Astroturf and PVC pipe on the slope in my backyard.
-- Nick Goepper -
Anytime a person has Disney World in their backyard, you know they're thinking big.
-- Rodney Jerkins -
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I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows
-- Paul Taylor -
I'll fight somebody in my backyard for free, just to see if I'm better than him.
-- Chuck Liddell -
Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard.
-- Rod Taylor -
I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.
-- Rodney Atkins -
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When sociobiologists start shitting in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start seeming more persuasive.
-- Laura Kipnis
