Backyards Quote by Karen Russell Download Open image “My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida.” — Karen Russell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Backyards Florida Grew Madness South South florida
When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, 'Hey, when I… — Jonathan Banks Copy Share Image
Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Florida is like a different country. It's crazy - the nature, the people. — Taylor Russell Copy Share Image
I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out. — John Glover Copy Share Image
Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“As a kid I heard the word malignancy as "Malig-Nancy" like an evil woman's name, no matter how many times Kiwi and the Chief and Dr. Gautman himself corrected me. Our mother had mistaken her first symptoms for a pregnancy, and so I still pictured the Malig-Nancy as a baby, a tiny, eyeless fist of a sister, killing her.” — Karen Russell Copy Share
“Once Mom and Ossie and I spent an afternoon alone together in her hospital room. We were watching the small TV above her head politely, as if the TV were a foreign dignitary giving an unintelligible lecture, and waiting for any news from Dr. Gautman. As if on cue, that lame movie from the sixties started playing, Ladies In Waiting.… — Karen Russell Copy Share
People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being.… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“She used to suffer these intense bouts of homesickness in her own bedroom. When she was very small, she would wake up tearing at… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“At ten, I couldn't articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well. (spoken… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“ Forever , just the word fills Beverly with an unaccountable, schoolmarmish sort of rage. Forever, that's got to be bad math, right? Such terrifying math.” — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.” — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“I often think, that she foresaw only the end times, never hot dogs.” — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“Imagine what I could have done in ten years. I could have learned to speak Japanese. I could have played every RPG video game… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it -… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest. — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
He wanted to go running home to Mommy, what can I say? Of course, it's hard for me to believe that anyone would choose… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
With Die Hard it was just something that I, you know, I grew up with those movies. I made a Die Hard movie with… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I recycle and try to be nice to the earth. But flora and fauna have always interested me, and it is because of so… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all… — Harper Lee Copy Share
For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
