Backyards Quotes

• 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

  Journey, Lucky, Earth

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

  Colin Powell

  Military, Challenges

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Secret, Mysterious

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• 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

  Sea, Mountain, Talent

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• I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Taken, Responsibility, Artist

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• Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.

  Jean Burden

  Cat, Animal, Fire

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• The world of your photography is limitless-just like your backyard.

  Nick Kelsh

  Photography, World, Like You

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• I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.

  Devon Werkheiser

  Nature, Nice, Silence

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• Dorothy tries to sum it all up before leaving Oz. "It's that if ever I go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard," she tells Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. "Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with. Is that it?"
  "That's all it is," confirms Glinda.

  Joey Green

  Life, Heart, Leaving

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• Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Beautiful, New York, Cities

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• 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.

  David Suzuki

  Parks, Next, Remember

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• Small steps taken by many people in their backyards add up.

  Nancy Knowlton

  Taken, People, Add

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• Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention.

  Larry Winget

  Example, Attention, Want

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

  Rodney Atkins

  Family And Friends, Playing Music, Good Food

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

  Christian Wiman

  Garden, Religion, Tripping

  Christian Wiman (2013). “Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet”, p.147, Copper Canyon Press

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• ...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Faith, Family And Friends

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• People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

  John Betjeman

  Home, Garden, People

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• Don't believe you have to travel far and wide to discover opportunities. The best opportunities will always be found in your own back yard, and not half way around the world in someone else's backyard. You have to look for them, however.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Believe, Opportunity, Yards

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• 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 him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.

  Richard Bode

  Wall, Men, Songbirds

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• 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.

  Brennan Manning

  Desert, Kind, God Love

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.24, Multnomah

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• My goal is not to shove information into your head. It's to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don't have to tell a child to explore the backyard.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Children, Goal, Curiosity

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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

  Tony Kushner

  Desire, Lost, Ifs

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

  Bart Starr

  Dad, Nfl, Going Out

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• For me the ideal date would be to drink wine in the backyard under the stars, listen to music and just talk. Then we'd eat steak and, later, dessert. If all went as planned, we'd save some of the dessert and play with it while making out.

  Karen McDougal

  Stars, Wine, Play

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• My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Basketball, Christmas, Dad

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