Own Backyard Quotes
28 quotes by 26 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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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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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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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 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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If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with
— Tony Kushner
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You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard.
— Russell Conwell
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a way that no…
— Jeff Belanger
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There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard.…
— Nelson DeMille
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In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all…
— Steve Scott
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I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned…
— Richard Bode
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The chilly December day! two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio first felt their homemade contraption whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed together with Arnstein's…
— John Dos Passos
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I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard.…
— Matt Dillon
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Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
— Colin Powell
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Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention.
— Larry Winget
Who Wrote These Own Backyard Quotes
26 authors contributed a total of 28 Own Backyard Quotes, led by these top contributors: