Own Backyard Quotes

28 Own Backyard quotes by 26 unique authors

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. — Rodney Atkins
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
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
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
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
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
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 you’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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. — Colin Powell
Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention. — Larry Winget
The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may… — Abraham Maslow
Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between my mother and… — Melina Marchetta
Yes, we all know that there's a good chance the missiles won't work properly when the government people finally come to get them, but over… — Shaun Tan
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard. — Patrick Rothfuss

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