Backyards Quotes - Page 6

• My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard, for months, nor had he seen his neighbors. Now he looked at them, from face to face, until he realized I had been loved by people he didn't even recognize. His heart filled up, warm again as it had not been in what seemed so long to him- save small forgotten moments with Buckley, the accidents of love that happened with his son. ~pgs 209-210; Buckley, Lindsey and Jack on Susie

  Alice Sebold

  Father, Heart, Son

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.150, Pan Macmillan

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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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• 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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• 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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• A mockingbird has moved into our neighborhood. It perches atop a telephone pole behind our backyard. Every morning it is the first thing I hear. It is impossible to be unhappy when listening to a mockingbird. So stuffed with songs it is, it can't seem to make up it's mind which to sing first, so it sings them all, a dozen different songs at once, in a dozen different voices. On and on it sings without a pause, so peppy, even frantic, as if its voice alone is keeping the world awake.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Song, Morning, Voice

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.185, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• They’ll have to eat first. And by the time they’re finished, you’ll be back.” “With the condoms.” “Right.” “For the giant orgy you’re convinced we’re about to have in the backyard.” “Dory! Just go!” “I’ll go with,” Ray said, getting up. “I need a snack.” Which was how I ended up condom shopping with a vampire.

  Karen Chance

  Snacks, Shopping, Vampire

  Karen Chance (2012). “Fury's Kiss: A Midnight's Daughter Novel”, p.108, Penguin

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• Chicken,' Josie said. 'Have you ever been in love?' Peter looked at Josie, and thought of how they had once tied a note with their addresses to a helium balloon and let it go in her backyard, certain it would reach Mars. Instead, they had received a letter from a widow who lived two blocks away. 'Yeah,' he said. 'I think so.

  Jodi Picoult

  Block, Thinking, Two

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning.

  Sylvia Plath

  Running, Dream, Writing

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.118, Anchor

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• Anyway, I'm sure the guy lives a million miles away." "Or he could live right in your backyard. You never know." I nodded, keeping a poker face, even though the idea of Sir Leo living in my backyard was extremely appealing.

  Mari Mancusi

  Ideas, Guy, Faces

  Mari Mancusi (2010). “Gamer Girl”, p.55, Penguin

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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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• 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 Hannah. My mother deserted me at the 7-Eleven, hundred of kilometers away from home. Hannah, however, did the unforgivable. She deserted me in our own backyard.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Home, Differences

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Tennis, Firsts, Court

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.61, David C Cook

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

  Matt Dillon

  Believe, Book, Different

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

  Ariana Grande

  Garden, Proud

  "We Sent Two of Ariana Grande's Biggest Fans to Interview Her - Come See What Happened!". GLAMOUR interview, www.glamour.com. September 5, 2013.

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• I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they'll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident.

  Jennifer McMahon

  Baby, Lying, Skeletons

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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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• 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.

  Kanye West

  Believe, Years, Looks

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• I suppose he'll die soon. I'm expecting it, like you do for a dog that's seventeen. There's no way to know how I'll react. He'll have faced his own placid death and slipped without a sound inside himself. Mostly, I imagine I'll crouch there at the door, fall onto him, and cry hard into the stench of his fur. I'll wait for him to wake up, but he won't. I'll bury him. I'll carry him outside, feeling his warmth turn to cold as the horizon frays and falls down in my backyard. For now, though, he's okay. I can see him breathing. He just smells like he's dead.

  Markus Zusak

  Dog, Fall, Breathing

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.19, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.

  Vera Nazarian

  Travel, Home, Land

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• I was born just after the end of World War II, and with my friends in our little suburban backyards in New Jersey, we used to play war a lot. I don't know if boys still play war, they probably do, but we were thrusting ourselves into recent history and we were always fighting either the Nazis or the Japanese.

  Paul Auster

  War, Fighting, Boys

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• He says you don't often find angels in places like happy homes and rich people's backyard parties. He says that angels flock to places like hospitals and homelss shelters and jails, because those people realize they need help. And do they are able to believe in strange phenomena. Funny how the world is backward. The really comfortable people don't always see much supernaturally, and to the ones who have to struggle, it's, like, breathing in their faces. The first are last... and the last are first.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Party, Believe, Struggle

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