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I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it. -- Brandi Chastain
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
I'm singing 'English Tea' from my new album 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.' I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it's something good to wake up to. -- Paul McCartney
This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey) -- Kellie Elmore
Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. -- Colin Powell
I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest. -- Fred Durst
I have a garden in my backyard that's completely organic, which I'm very proud of. -- Ariana Grande
I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. -- Rodney Atkins
I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected. -- Annie Leibovitz
The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your house. -- Douglas Coupland
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. -- Kumar Mangalam Birla
I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up. -- Jennifer Lawrence
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. -- Helmut Newton
Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard. -- Jose Saramago
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
My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick. -- Ted Cruz
My brother Bill, who is a year older, is a climber, and when I was in the seventh grade, he taught me how to rappel off the frozen waterfall in our backyard. -- Ann Bancroft
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. -- Stephen Harper
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. -- Betty White
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
I'd love to paint our roof white - it's so hot down here in Texas! - and I'd love to have a rainwater collection system to save rain runoff for later. I also love to fantasize about keeping chickens in the backyard. -- Katherine Center
When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and it gave shade in the summertime and excellent cherries in the late summer. Having cherry blossoms around gives the best springtime vibe ever. -- Andrew Wyatt
I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner. -- Summer Sanders
I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat. -- Markus Zusak
The first sort of big present I remember getting from Santa Claus was quite a small telescope that I remember going into our backyard with my parents and figuring out how to assemble, and staring at the night sky, just for hours, with both of my parents. -- Chelsea Clinton
Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers. -- Gretchen Rubin
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. -- Gabriel Basso
My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass. -- Jimmy Fallon
Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective. -- Sara Genn
I poop in the backyard... I wear disposable diapers. -- David Duchovny
The world of your photography is limitless-just like your backyard. -- Nick Kelsh
Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany. -- Christian Wiman
I skied on Astroturf and PVC pipe on the slope in my backyard. -- Nick Goepper
Why so scrawny, cat?Starving for fat fish or mice...Or backyard love? -- Matsuo Basho
My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida. -- Karen Russell
That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground. -- Mark Twain
Anytime a person has Disney World in their backyard, you know they're thinking big. -- Rodney Jerkins
There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Camping in the backyard last night for Father's Day! Wrestling, stories, s'mores...it was awesome! -- Drew Brees
Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard. -- Donald Hall
My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico. -- Sylvia Earle
I'll fight somebody in my backyard for free, just to see if I'm better than him. -- Chuck Liddell
I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried. -- Daniel Keyes
The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard. -- John Tukey
Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself. -- Henry Rollins
I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows -- Paul Taylor
I'm out there having as good a time as I did in the backyard since I was five-years-old. -- Philip Rivers
At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard. -- Alain Ducasse
'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard. -- Bobby Ghosh
At the Mirage Sportsbook, you can get a line on 2 kid playing wiffleball in the backyard in Minnesota -- Artie Lange
When the homebrewers stop entering the profession, and the backyard breweries are squeezed out, then it will become stagnant. -- Greg Noonan
Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters. -- Stephen King
Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. -- Jean Burden
If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with -- Tony Kushner
Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention. -- Larry Winget
The Australian backyard was once built for tradesmen and outdoor toilets. As suburbs spread, it became a playground and source of pride... -- Pete Munro
And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue. -- Nora Roberts
Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard. -- Vera Nazarian
I grew up in a very modest home. We grew a lot of our food in our backyard. We fished; my brothers hunted. -- Martha Stewart
I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement." -- Frank Sinatra, Jr.
My studio is designed for atmosphere. I have a really cozy, comfortable room that has a great, huge glass door that views my backyard. -- Geddy Lee
Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them. -- Russell Conwell
My dad never pushed me but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me. -- Bart Starr
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
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. -- Russell Conwell
Anyone can take an adventure even if it's only in your own backyard. Let your imagination be your adventure and see where it takes you. -- Carmela Dutra
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. -- John Thorn
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Chrysler
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. -- Brennan Manning
As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth. -- Thelma Golden
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
If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate. -- Vanilla Ice
John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover, rebuild and reinvent our own backyard. -- Thomas Friedman
I don't even have children, it's just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box of laundry detergant wearing baby clothes. -- Thom Yorke
I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn't have a pond in my backyard. I saw violence. -- Tracy Morgan
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
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
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
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
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. -- Bashar al-Assad
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
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
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
My biggest fear is that a paparazzi or someone ... is going to come in my backyard and see me when I get in my pool. That would be very unfortunate. -- Viola Davis
...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard. -- Abraham Maslow
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
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. -- Josh Duhamel
You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard. -- Hillary Rodham Clinton
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
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. -- Ilana Mercer
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. -- Emraan Hashmi
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
There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.' -- Michelle Bachelet
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
I spent my first 4 years living in the tiny town of Snug, by the sea near Hobart. Curious about animals, I would pick up ants in our backyard and jellyfish on the beach. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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
I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head. -- Devon Werkheiser
With Die Hard it was just something that I, you know, I grew up with those movies. I made a Die Hard movie with my friends in my backyard during high school. It was terrible. -- Len Wiseman
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. -- Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it. -- Cathie Pelletier

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