Backyards Quotes - Page 3

• There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.

  Nelson DeMille

  Book, Long, Majority

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• The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.

  Abraham Maslow

  Ignorance, Miracle, Family And Friends

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• I come from a very sporty background because my mom is a gymnastics teacher. So growing up I was never sitting watching TV in the afternoons. I always played ball outside in the backyard.

  Gal Gadot

  Mom, Teacher, Growing Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Right, I breast feed baby camels in my backyard just for the freaking fun of it. Just tell me where you live, Pinocchio, and save the baloney for lunch.

  David Sedaris

  Baby, Fun, Lunch

  David Sedaris (2010). “Naked”, p.94, Hachette UK

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• The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.

  Mark Haskell Smith

  Wall, Marijuana, Years

  Mark Haskell Smith (2012). “Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup”, p.33, Broadway Books

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• Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Average, Ideas, People

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.613, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a rainy night? A hammock in a freshly mown backyard? A verandah overlooking the summer sea? Good choices, every one. But I have no doubt that they are all merely displacements, sentimental attempts to replicate the warmth and snugness of my mother's lap.

  Michael Dirda

  Summer, Mother, Reading

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• A bear and a deer are both wild animals. We allow the deer to roam in our backyard but we do not give the same right to the bear. It is because the bear is dangerous. Neither the bear nor the deer have rights. We humans give them rights. Taking in account our own security, we give to some animals some rights and deny the same to other animals.

  Ali Sina

  Animal, Rights, Giving

  Source: myislam.dk

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• People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that a certain tree will die when the tree is in someone's backyard . . . . You are talking about a personal asset, a friend, a monument, not about board feet of lumber.

  Roger Swain

  Talking, Feet, People

  Roger B. Swain (1983). “Field days: journal of an itinerant biologist”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• NATO remains a military alliance, and we are against having a military alliance making itself at home right in our own backyard; in our historic territory. I simply cannot imagine that we would travel to Sevastopol to visit NATO sailors. Of course, most of them are wonderful guys, but it would be better to have them come and visit us, be our guests, rather than the other way round.

  Vladimir Putin

  Powerful, Military, Home

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• Camping in the backyard last night for Father's Day! Wrestling, stories, s'mores...it was awesome!

  Drew Brees

  Father, Wrestling, Night

  FaceBook post by Drew Brees from Jun 21, 2015

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• ...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.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Spring, Advice, Tomatoes

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• Fences, unlike punishments, clearly mark out the perimeters of any specified territory. Young children learn where it is permissible to play, because their backyard fence plainly outlines the safe area. They learn about the invisible fence that surrounds the stove, and that Grandma has an invisible barrier around her cabinet of antique teacups.

  Jeanne Elium

  Children, Grandma, Play

  Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.155, Celestial Arts

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• Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, Parent, Independence

  Henry Rollins (1996). “Eye Scream”, 2 13 61

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• I started out in a kid’s backyard playing touch football and I never abandoned the principle when I got to the pros: if they can’t touch you, they can’t tackle you.

  Mercury Morris

  Football, Kids, Principles

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• You can't always get out on the mountain, so I'll put rubber on the end of my ice tools and climb the tread wall, a rotating rock wall I have in my backyard.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Wall, Rocks, Ice

  Source: www.summitdaily.com

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• I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards, and alarm clocks ring in the morning.

  Haruki Murakami

  Morning, Home, Cat

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 18, 2014

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• Backyard barbecues are really just about getting together. It's all about making people come over, having a really good time, talking about their lives, and sharing some great recipes.

  G. Garvin

  Talking, People, Together

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• Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.

  Sara Genn

  Travel, Perspective, Grants

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• I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.

  Queen Latifah

  World, Littles, Deer

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• I was sitting outside in our backyard on a summer day, I was around six, and suddenly the whole world dissolved before my eyes and I found myself in a timeless world of light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Summer, Eye, Light

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• 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?'

  Melinda Gates

  Thinking, Risk, Looks

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• Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels at night because of it, because of the crackling sound and walking around the sidewalks, like when you're a kid, and kicking those soft piles, and seeing smoke from backyards and Mr. Kilstrap standing over the metal drum with the holes in the top, the sparking embers at his feet.

  Megan Abbott

  Fall, Kids, Night

  Megan Abbott (2012). “Dare Me: A Novel”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• I was three years old. I was messing with my grandparents' dog in Las Vegas, and he decided to pick me up by my head and run around the backyard with me.

  Brian Austin Green

  Family, Running, Dog

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• Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. Learn from the pros, observe them, seek them out as mentors and partners. But remember that even the pros may have leveled out in terms of their learning and skills. Sometimes even the pros can become complacent and lazy.

  Colin Powell

  Exercise, Skills, Challenges

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