Backyards Quotations

I skied on Astroturf and PVC pipe on the slope in my backyard.

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows

By the time I was twelve, I had started my own theater company and was doing plays in the backyard and the front yard and all over the neighborhood, so, you know, I was definitely a lifer even back when I was 10.

During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.

I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it.

Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighbourhoods.

I have a garden in my backyard that's completely organic, which I'm very proud of.

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.

If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill.

My dad never pushed me but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me.

I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

Having a Southwest Green in my backyard is a huge advantage for me on tour. I am pleasantly surprised just how true the ball rolls and reacts to chip and pitch shots. I love my Southwest Green.

I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.

I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.

All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were savage looking. Served him right.

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. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.

It is true [the risk for travel is greater] for we now operate in a global market. Business travelers are conducting business all over the world as if they are conducting business in their own backyards.

There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.

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 problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?'

I wonder why no one called the police about the rocket launcher? God knows my neighbors usually report it if I so much as fart in my backyard. (Bubba)

And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue.

Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?

How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.

The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida.

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 the backyard. It won't even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them.

I'm out there having as good a time as I did in the backyard since I was five-years-old.

With Die Hard it was just something that I, you know, I grew up with those movies. I made a Die Hard movie with my friends in my backyard during high school. It was terrible.

If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with

That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

...To be honest, I'd be the last person who should be doling out gardeinng advice. I don't have the patience for growing things. Yes, I realize there's nothing quite as satisfying as eating food that you've pulled up from the ground and that's why, at the height of the planting season, I bury cans of tomato soup in my backyard and dig them up in late spring.

Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.