Turf Quotes

• Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking!

  Henry Hazlitt

  Thinking, Journey, Feet

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• Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

  Alice S Rossi

  Self Esteem, Equality, Men

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• It's an honor to support such a worthy program.TURF aims to protect the integrity of tailgating and to keep game day family-friendly.

  Boomer Esiason

  Integrity, Games, Support

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• Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.

  Richard Ford

  Art, Children, Real

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• All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

  Helen Thomas

  President, Rail, Presses

  "Hearst" Newspaper Column, October 15, 2003.

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• I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Thinking, Matter, Trouble

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• Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.

  Chris Christie

  Hurt, Selfish, Sacrifice

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• But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.

  Helen Garner

  Husband, Thinking, Looks

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• Success...is no longer a simple ascension of steps. You need to climb sideways and sometimes down, and sometimes you need to swing from the jungle gym and establish your own turf somewhere else on the playground.

  Reid Hoffman

  Simple, Somewhere Else, Swings

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• What is the difference between astroturf and grass? I don't know, I never smoked astroturf.

  Tug McGraw

  Funny, Weed, Baseball

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• Green be the turf above thee,
  Friend of my better days!
  None knew thee but to love thee,
  Nor named thee but to praise.

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Death, Green, Better Days

  'On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake'

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• You have to get out in the world and meet folks on their own turf, something which a lot of urban radical intellectuals seldom do.

  Michael Yates

  World, Urban, Radical

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.

  William Hazlitt

  Heart, Thinking, Blue

  William Hazlitt (1871). “Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners”, p.250

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• I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of the century.

  Beano Cook

  Hate, Science, Hair

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• All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testosterone and heroism.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Pride, Guy, Ego

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• A lot of times, candidates for office, especially incumbents, seem to get drawn into their opponents' arguments, and fighting on their turf, because you want to defend yourself. That's wrong. Fight on your own turf. Make them come to you. Make them explain why they don't agree with your position. I think that a lot of times, too many liberals, progressives, lose because they're afraid to really stand up for what they believe in.

  Tom Harkin

  Believe, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: progressive.org

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• Ghosts of melodious prophesyings rave
  Round every spot where trod Apollo's foot;
  Bronze clarions awake, and faintly bruit,
  Where long ago a giant battle was;
  And, from the turf, a lullaby doth pass
  In every place where infant Orpheus slept.
  Feel we these things? - that moment have we stept
  Into a sort of oneness, and our state
  Is like a floating spirit's. But there are
  Richer entanglements, enthralments far
  More self-destroying, leading, by degrees,
  To the chief intensity: the crown of these
  Is made of love and friendship, and sits high
  Upon the forehead of humanity.

  John Keats

  Life, Feet, Self

  John Keats, “Endymion: Book I”

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• I've been doing Pilates since 1974, I lift weights, I power walk every day and I run backwards. That's sometimes a little hard when you're not on your home turf, because you've got to find a place where there are no bumps in the way - or people.

  Britt Ekland

  Running, Home, People

  "My body & soul". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2008.

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• This is a turf battle. They are saying, 'The songwriters aren't getting paid.' Baloney. Songwriters are getting paid. They're paid sync rights and (mechanical) rights. They aren't getting paid for the public performance in a download because there is no public performance in a download.

  Jonathan Potter

  Rights, Battle, Sync

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• Playing on turf affects everything, you know, it affects the way the ball rolls, it affects the way the ball bounces, it affects the way you think about whether or not going into a slide. It's kind of a nightmare.

  Abby Wambach

  Thinking, Balls, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive: the white ball sailing up into the sky, reaching its apex, falling and finally dropping to the turf, just the way I planned it.

  Arnold Palmer

  Art, Fall, Golf

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• Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Cleats, Artificial, Mortals

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• Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.

  William Wordsworth

  Play, Degrees, Ease

  'To the Same Flower [Daisy]' (With little here to do, 1807)

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• Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind o’er thy sickly brow, when free To tread the springy turf,— to hear the trees Communing with the gales,—to catch the voice Of waters, gushing from their rocky womb, And singing as they wander... Spring-hours will come again, and feelings rise With dewy freshness o’er thy wither’d heart.

  Robert Montgomery

  Nature, Wall, Spring

  Robert Montgomery (1828). “A Universal Prayer, Death, A Vision of Heaven and A Vision of Hell”, p.130

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• The principal reason, invariably, most "successful" giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact, the worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday's turf.

  Tom Peters

  Change, Successful, Yesterday

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