Quotes and Sayings About Backyards
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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