Backyard Quotes
169 quotes by 160 authors
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I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.
— Rodney Atkins
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There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this…
— Michelle Bachelet
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In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you:…
— Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.
— Walter Chrysler
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I poop in the backyard... I wear disposable diapers.
— David Duchovny
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The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of companies from their main task.…
— Theodore Levitt
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When the homebrewers stop entering the profession, and the backyard breweries are squeezed out, then it will become stagnant.
— Greg Noonan
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That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.
— Mark Twain
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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
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NATO remains a military alliance, and we are against having a military alliance making itself at home right in our own backyard; in our historic…
— Vladimir Putin
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The Australian backyard was once built for tradesmen and outdoor toilets. As suburbs spread, it became a playground and source of pride...
— Pete Munro
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The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.
— John Tukey
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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…
— Melinda Gates
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I'm very comfortable with my own body. I come from Broadway — everybody's naked on Broadway. I like to think of myself as more granola.…
— Lea Michele
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I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. I set high goals for myself, I seek perfection, dream of exotic faraway places.…
— Isabella Rossellini
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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…
— Rod Taylor
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My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America…
— David Lynch
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A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that…
— Melissa Fay Greene
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I don't even have children, it's just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box of laundry detergant…
— Thom Yorke
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If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with
— Tony Kushner
Who Wrote These Backyard Quotes
160 authors contributed a total of 169 Backyard Quotes, led by these top contributors: