Yard Work Quotes:

You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.

- Eddie Vedder

topic: Careers, House, Guilt, Ramones, Yard Work

I just show up to the yard, work hard, and play as hard as I can.

- Dustin Pedroia

topic: Hard Work, Play, Yards, Yard Work

Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.

- Dan Buettner

topic: Exercise, Garden, People, Power Tools, Yard Work

I've always wanted children... not of my own, but for yard work and reaching into tight places to get things I've dropped.

- Dov Davidoff

topic: Children, Yards, Reaching, Yard Work

The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your ability to plot all the varied and wonderful things you might do to get even, or at least to make up, just get a smidgen for time lost to TV and yard work and house cleaning.

- Ellen Hopkins

source: Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

topic: Weed, Thinking, Giving, Pulling Weeds, Yard Work

I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.

- Breaux Greer

topic: Sports, Jobs, School, Yard Work