Back Yard Quotes

38 quotes by 36 authors

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. — Truman Capote
Women: Can't live with them, can't bury them in the back yard without the neighbors seeing. — Shaun Williamson
My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard… — Dudley R. Herschbach
Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard. — Mason Cooley
Shoot you on the front porch and knock you to the back yard. — Lil Wayne
Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're… — Ioan Gruffudd
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the… — Jesse Owens
I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard. — Henry Ford
Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a… — William Petersen
I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the… — Agnes Martin
But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the constellations we couldn't… — Stuart Dybek
You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or… — Robin Yount
I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of… — Jennifer Egan
When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and… — Fran Kranz
I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond. — Jennifer Wyatt
I think O.J. protests too much. Not only did he say he didn't carve the holiday turkey, but he was in the back yard practicing… — David Letterman
If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house. — Mike Harding
I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard. — Phyllis Diller
If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage. — Sylvia Earle
I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it… — Walter Mosley

Who Wrote These Back Yard Quotes

36 authors contributed a total of 38 Back Yard Quotes, led by these top contributors: