Backyards Quotes

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

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

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

Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.

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

Having a Southwest Green in my backyard is a huge advantage for me on tour. I am pleasantly surprised just how true the ball rolls and reacts to chip and pitch shots. I love my Southwest Green.

I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in the backyard. It won't even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them.

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.

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.

I'll fight somebody in my backyard for free, just to see if I'm better than him.

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.

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.

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

When the homebrewers stop entering the profession, and the backyard breweries are squeezed out, then it will become stagnant.

I poop in the backyard... I wear disposable diapers.

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.

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.

At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.

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.

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.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

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

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

I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."

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.

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.

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

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

I'm out there having as good a time as I did in the backyard since I was five-years-old.

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.

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

It is true [the risk for travel is greater] for we now operate in a global market. Business travelers are conducting business all over the world as if they are conducting business in their own backyards.

I skied on Astroturf and PVC pipe on the slope in my backyard.

Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.)

Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington -- it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. ...This is your victory.

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.

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

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

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

Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier folks have the ability to say, "not in my backyard."

In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard.

...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.

Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.

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

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?'

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

My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida.

That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

The sarin gas is a very primitive gas. You can have it done in the backyard of a house ; it's a very primitive gas. So, it's not something complicated.

Backyards are as Australian as the Hills Hoists they host, and as individual as those who work and play in them. Whether haven, pantry or playground, they all tell a story.