Backyards Quotes - Page 6

• 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 was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Daughter, Father, Blue

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.85, Scholastic Inc.

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• There are many gods . . . gods of beauty and magic, gods of the garden, gods in our own backyards, but we go off to foreign countries to find new ones, we reach to the stars to find new ones--. . . . The god of the church is a jealous god; he cannot live in peace with other gods.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Country, Stars, Jealous

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• It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn’t it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn’t playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Cute, Kids, Angel

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• I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. 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

  Kids, Writing, Thinking

  Caroline B. Cooney (2012). “Twins”, p.188, Open Road Media

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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 as you can't get in the stores. And potatoes, beans, lettuce, collards, onions, squash, cauliflower, eggplant, carrots, peppers. Dirt in you own backyard, producing things you eat. Makes you wonder.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Real, Eggplant, Squash

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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 is not only a problem that exists in the far reaches of the globe. It happens right here in our own backyard. Together, as concerned citizens, we must do more to make sure every child's needs are met.

  Katie Couric

  Country, Children, Thinking

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• This is nothing more than a public land grab for private profit. The BLM is literally giving this away to corporations…This may be out in the desert today, but tomorrow it could be in your backyard…Already over a dozen projects are proposed in San Diego and Imperial County.

  Robert Scheid

  Land, Giving, Desert

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• My kids that's their backyard. I think when they're adults, their memories will be mostly of spending time at beach, the exploration, the freedom that you have. You take care of your house that you live in and we make our bed and we clean our cars and we do all that stuff, but yet we neglect sort of the place that really provides us with the greatest form of sustainability, which is the ocean.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Beach, Memories, Ocean

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• Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Flower, Fields

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1973). “The second Penguin Krishnamurti reader”

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• Our community of rebels, of humble truth seekers, wants to turn our culture around. We don't despise our country. We don't desire failure. We desire light, a beacon to show the world that our wealth need not show the way to more rapid destruction, but can be leveraged to heal more acres, more backyards, more communities faster than any civilization on the right path has ever done it.

  Joel Salatin

  Country, Humble, Civilization

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• 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.

  Jim Furyk

  Balls, Green, Chips

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• 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.

  Mark Hall

  Risk, World, Conducting

  "Risky business: Do I stay or go?" by Nick Easen, www.cnn.com. August 7, 2003.

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• Imagine what I could have done in ten years. I could have learned to speak Japanese. I could have played every RPG video game ever created, and if I spoke Japanese I could have played the foreign ones too! Man, I could have built a spaceship in my backyard and flew it to the moon and back, if I wanted.

  Kevin James

  Moon, Men, Years

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• My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.

  Eric Stoltz

  Dad, School, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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, I mean, duality's nice. You never get bored. You can't say the grass is always greener if you're in both backyards.

  Hilarie Burton

  Nice, Mean, Weekend

  FaceBook post by Hilarie Burton from Aug 04, 2016

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

  Karen Russell

  Florida, Madness, Grew

  "Karen Russell’s Fantastical World". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. February 7, 2013.

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

  Paul Taylor

  Want, Lows, Interest

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• Anytime a person has Disney World in their backyard, you know they're thinking big.

  Rodney Jerkins

  Thinking, World, Think Big

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• I'll fight somebody in my backyard for free, just to see if I'm better than him.

  Chuck Liddell

  Fighting, Ifs

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• If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.

  Vanilla Ice

  People, Kitchen, Favorite Places

  "Vanilla Ice: From Rapper to Renovator". FOX News Interview, www.foxnews.com. July 10, 2012.

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• There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.

  Tiger Woods

  Play, Scotland, America

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• A hip-looking teen watches an elderly woman hobble across the street on a walker. "Grammy's here!" he shouts. He puts some MacAttack Mac&Cheese in the microwave and dons headphones and takes out a video game so he won't be bored during the forty seconds it takes his lunch to cook. A truck comes around the corner and hits Grammy, sending her flying over the roof into the backyard, where luckily she lands on a trampoline. Unluckily, she bounces back over the roof, into the front yard, landing on a rosebush.

  George Saunders

  Elderly, Land, Games

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• The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.

  Joel Salatin

  Home, Garden, Long Ago

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• One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

  John Green

  Truth, Memories, Children

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• We didn’t deny the obvious, but we didn’t entirely accept it either. I mean, we said hello to it each morning in the foyer. We patted its little head as it made a mess in the backyard, but we never nurtured it. Many nights the obvious showed up at our bedroom door, in its pajamas, unable to sleep, in need of a hug, and we just stared at it like an Armenian, or even worse— hid beneath the covers and pretended not to hear its tiny sobs.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Morning, Mean, Sleep

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