Backyards Quotes
153 quotes by 140 authors
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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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We're never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air, the soil, the…
— Elise M. Boulding
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It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out…
— Henry Rollins
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I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice,…
— Banks
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I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.
— Caroline B. Cooney
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Sometimes we must look outside our own backyards to realize how big the world is and how blessed we are.
— Eugene Nathaniel Butler
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My weekends are spent hidden in the woods, and then I have to come back and pretend to be this very upper-crust insurance investigator. But,…
— Hilarie Burton
Who Wrote These Backyards Quotes
140 authors contributed a total of 153 Backyards Quotes, led by these top contributors: