Backyards Quotes - Page 2

• I like making pies. I have a bunch of fruit trees in my backyard. My loquat tree sprouted, and I like making loquat pie. They're really hard to peel and everything, and it took me forever, but they make the best pies. They're amazing.

  Kristen Stewart

  Pie, Tree, Forever

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

  John Tukey

  Play, Statistics, Analytics

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• Alexander and I sat together on a backyard swing. "This is like a dream come true," Alexander said as we gently swung back and forth. "We can finally just focus on us now. Continue the traditional 'Boy meets girl, girl falls for boy, boy turns out to be a vampire' story.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Girl, Dream, Fall

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• Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Player, Games

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• 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.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Glasses, People, Tourism

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• My studio is designed for atmosphere. I have a really cozy, comfortable room that has a great, huge glass door that views my backyard.

  Geddy Lee

  Glasses, Doors, Views

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• Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard.

  Rod Taylor

  Thinking, Mind, Roles

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• In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Years, Despair, Done

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• 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.

  Helmut Newton

  California, House, Looks

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

  Brandi Chastain

  Soccer, Goal, Score

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• Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.

  Jose Saramago

  Latin, Ambition, America

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• 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.

  Stephen Harper

  Cutting, Government, Needs

  Debates (Hansard) No. 173 - House of Commons of Canada, www.ourcommons.ca. March 23, 1995.

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• 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.

  Josh Duhamel

  Men, Hiking, Tinkering

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• I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Growing Up, Dad, Thinking

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• 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.

  Betty White

  Dog, Dad, Radio

  Betty White (2011). “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)”, p.121, Penguin

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• I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.

  Markus Zusak

  Brother, People, Boxing

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• After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of 'spirit fingers' to chase our cares and woes into somebody else's backyard.

  James Wolcott

  Inspirational, Dance, Song

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• I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.

  Fred Durst

  Fighting, Support, Snuff

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• I fully believe in ghosts. I have, my entire life. The first house I ever lived in was haunted. There was a grave of a man in the backyard. I was just a baby then, but my parents would tell me that every night, at the same time, they would hear someone walking up the stairs.

  Meaghan Rath

  Baby, Believe, Men

  "Get to Know Being Human's Meaghan Rath". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. March 3, 2011.

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• It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'

  Tori Spelling

  Christmas, Dad, Kids

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

  Sylvia Earle

  Florida, Parent, Mexico

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• There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: this is not happening in my backyard.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Girl, Country, Cities

  "Making cities safe for women and girls" by Michelle Bachelet, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2013.

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• We think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards.

  Norman Mailer

  Beautiful, Sweet, Men

  Marilyn ch. 1 (1973)

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• There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Swings, Tree

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Should, Destination, Solar System

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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