Backyard Quotes - page 3

Kristina, my wife, and I thought about this one day when the kids were, of course, watching television. And we took a big blanket and put it in the backyard and said, 'Let's go out on our back and look at the sky and call it sky television.' We saw all kinds of things. (Clyde Edgerton)
By the time I was twelve, I had started my own theater company and was doing plays in the backyard and the front yard and all over the neighborhood, so, you know, I was definitely a lifer even back when I was 10. View quote
Carrie Preston
I burned down my backyard as a seven-year-old. I poured kerosene over dried leaves and set the whole place on fire, just for fun. Yeah, not a very normal thing to do. View quote
Emraan Hashmi
My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara. View quote
Eric Stoltz
I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we'd vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate. View quote
Gabriel Basso
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. View quote
James Wolcott
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. View quote
John Thorn
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. View quote
Josh Duhamel
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. View quote
Josh Fox
It's not a good idea to always look for new frontiers, especially when you have opportunities in your existing businesses, in your own backyard. View quote
Kumar Mangalam Birla
Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think. (Dixie Carter)
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. View quote
Meaghan Rath
The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their imagination. The backyard isn't a pirate ship or a jungle, in the same way that the soundstage isn't Shambala. View quote
Nolan North
Once a bustling logging town, Sandpoint has embraced its natural beauty to become an amazing resort town drawing people near and far to enjoy its beauty and recreational possibilities. It's truly a small town with a huge backyard. View quote
Nate Holland
We train very hard under windy conditions. I've actually walked a wire in my backyard with 90-mile-an-hour winds. View quote
Nik Wallenda
I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows. View quote
Paul Taylor
My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard. View quote
Paula Zahn
We have enough to worry about with what's happening in our nation to worry about what's happening in California. Keep your feet grounded in your own backyard and together we're going to build communities that work. View quote
Sher Valenzuela
I was digging in the backyard to get my own clay and making pottery. And then I started taking pictures and built my own darkroom. I would go out at six in the morning and just take pictures. View quote
Steven Klein
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?' View quote
Tori Spelling
I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively. (Tullian Tchividjian)
Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard. View quote
Vera Nazarian
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. View quote
Kristen Stewart
I have a garden in my backyard that's completely organic, which I'm very proud of. View quote
Ariana Grande
He was a young driver, just out on his second job. And he was carrying the next day's pasty fruits for everyone in that coal-scarred city where children play without despair in backyard slag-piles and folks manage to eat each day about thirty thousand pounds of bananas... View quote
Harry Chapin