Backyard Quotes
169 quotes by 160 authors
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They’ll have to eat first. And by the time they’re finished, you’ll be back.†“With the condoms.†“Right.†“For the giant orgy you’re convinced we’re…
— Karen Chance
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She liked to imagine him stealing a glimpse of her over the backyard fence, proudly watching his strange daughter daydream under the beech tree. Blue…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue.
— Nora Roberts
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There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends,…
— Abraham Maslow
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I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.
— Daniel Keyes
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The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn’t hate the cabinet door, I hated my…
— Philip K. Dick
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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…
— Buddy Wakefield
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As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my…
— Thelma Golden
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I fully believe in ghosts. I have, my entire life. The first house I ever lived in was haunted. There was a grave of a…
— Meaghan Rath
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The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I skied on Astroturf and PVC pipe on the slope in my backyard.
— Nick Goepper
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I burned down my backyard as a seven-year-old. I poured kerosene over dried leaves and set the whole place on fire, just for fun. Yeah,…
— Emraan Hashmi
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The first sort of big present I remember getting from Santa Claus was quite a small telescope that I remember going into our backyard with…
— Chelsea Clinton
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We go to several farms and look at foraging, and throw backyard parties with friends. We want to let people know they can enjoy a…
— Debi Mazar
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When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and it gave shade…
— Andrew Wyatt
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John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover, rebuild and reinvent our…
— Thomas Friedman
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I was digging in the backyard to get my own clay and making pottery. And then I started taking pictures and built my own darkroom.…
— Steven Klein
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I always dreamed when I was a little girl interested in animals that I would go live in Africa. Then I found out that you…
— Isabella Rossellini
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At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.
— Alain Ducasse
Who Wrote These Backyard Quotes
160 authors contributed a total of 169 Backyard Quotes, led by these top contributors: