Backyards Quotes - Page 7

• Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness because if you do you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

  Anna Quindlen

  Happiness, Baby, Passion

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird.

  Harper Lee

  Gun, Blue, Tin Cans

  "Fictional character: Atticus Finch". "To Kill a Mockingbird", www.imdb.com. 1962.

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• Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?

  Matsuo Basho

  Cat, Fats, Fishes

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• Think they work you too hard? Think of poor Ali Sard. He has to mow grass in his uncle's backyard and its quick growing grass and it grows as he mows it the faster he mows it the faster he grows it. And all that his stingy old uncle will pay for his shoving mower around the hay is piffulous pay of two dooklas a day. And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay!

  Dr. Seuss

  Uncles, Thinking, Two

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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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• (The tree bend over. Suddenly, a hiss and a meow sounded an instant before two cats darted off across the backyard.) Look, Lanie, it’s Mr. Tomcat come to save me from my celibacy. Oh, help me, Moon Mistress. Whatever am I to do with the attentions of such an unwanted suitor! Help me quick, before he kills me with my allergies. (Grace)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cat, Moon, Two

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• Yes, we all know that there's a good chance the missiles won't work properly when the government people finally come to get them, but over the years we've stopped worrying about that. Deep down, most of us feel it's probably better this way. After all, if there are families in faraway countries with their own backyard missiles, armed and pointed back at us, we would hope that they too have found a much better use for them.

  Shaun Tan

  Country, Government, Years

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• I wonder why no one called the police about the rocket launcher? God knows my neighbors usually report it if I so much as fart in my backyard. (Bubba)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Police, Rockets, Wonder

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.213, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I'd be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I'd run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap my neck back.

  Emo Philips

  Running, Kids, Names

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• I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.

  Josh Fox

  Thinking, People, Doorways

  "Josh Fox: Activist and filmmaker" by Gerri Miller, www.mnn.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I remember growing up, getting the Colorado Springs Sun in the morning and the Denver Post in the afternoon, and my dad just inhaling both of them, and me waiting to get the sports page from him. I fell in love with the craft. I remember being 9 years old and playing baseball in the backyard and coming in and writing little newspaper articles for my dad.

  Pat Forde

  Sports, Baseball, Morning

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• They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the DNA of the show. There's no question.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Writing, Creativity, Dna

  Source: collider.com

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• I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Men, Ice, Skating

  "On the ‘Parks & Rec’ Set with Tatiana Maslany". Interview, etcanada.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A.M.

  George Will

  Distance, Men, People

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• If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill.

  Charles Colson

  Ordinary, Culture, Apologetic

  Charles Colson, Nancy Pearcey (2011). “How Now Shall We Live?”, p.62, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Pitching is pitching. I've been doing this since I was eight-years-old, playing in my backyard with my dad. The things that work in Double-A will also work in the majors.

  Josh Beckett

  Dad, Eight, Years

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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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• 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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• All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were savage looking. Served him right.

  Kim Harrison

  Savages, Fairy, Inviting

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• Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.

  Stephen King

  Tree, October, Breeze

  Stephen King (2014). “Big Driver”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page.

  Veronica Roth

  Writing, Play, World

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• There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.

  Polly Horvath

  Sports, Team, Cat

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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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• I believe in my heart that faith in Jesus Christ can and will lead us beyond an exclusive concern for the well-being of other human beings to the broader concern for the well-being of the birds in our backyards, the fish in our rivers, and every living creature on the face of the earth.

  John Wesley

  Jesus, Believe, Heart

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