Back Yard Quotes
38 quotes by 36 authors
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
— Truman Capote
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Women: Can't live with them, can't bury them in the back yard without the neighbors seeing.
— Shaun Williamson
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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
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Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.
— Mason Cooley
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Shoot you on the front porch and knock you to the back yard.
— Lil Wayne
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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
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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
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I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.
— Henry Ford
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond.
— Jennifer Wyatt
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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
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If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.
— Mike Harding
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I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.
— Phyllis Diller
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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
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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: