Backyards Quotes

153 quotes by 143 authors

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
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
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
If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with — Tony Kushner
You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if youâ€™re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard. — Russell Conwell
Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them. — Russell Conwell
Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. Learn from the pros, observe them, seek them out as mentors and partners.… — Colin Powell
The world of your photography is limitless-just like your backyard. — Nick Kelsh
People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that a certain tree… — Roger Swain
When are we left-wingers going to learn that we are losing the cultural and political battle with conservatives because we are fractured into narcissistic special-interest… — Sherman Alexie
I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it. — Brandi Chastain
My dad never pushed me but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me. — Bart Starr
There are many gods . . . gods of beauty and magic, gods of the garden, gods in our own backyards, but we go off… — Rudolfo Anaya
It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and… — Francesca Lia Block
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. I love all of it, thinking up the plots,… — Caroline B. Cooney
I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such… — Roy Blount, Jr.
Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got… — Jack Handey
To think that one child would go to bed hungry somewhere in this country is heartbreaking... to know how many do is virtually incomprehensible. This… — Katie Couric
I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a rainy night? A… — Michael Dirda
This is nothing more than a public land grab for private profit. The BLM is literally giving this away to corporationsâ€¦This may be out in… — Robert Scheid

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