Own Backyard Quotes

#1. I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.

Matt Dillon

#2. 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.

Steve Scott

#3. 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

#4. The most she knew about gardens was the Bakers' own backyard, which contained one large mulberry tree and a rosebush, plus the window boxes where her mother grew runner beans. She knew there was earth under the plants and that the earth contained worms. She shuddered.

Diana Wynne Jones

#5. 'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.

Bobby Ghosh

#6. 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

#7. If you have to look any further than your own backyard to find your hearts desire, you never really lost it to begin with

Morgan Matson

#8. Goodness, for me, has to start in my own backyard: find what's beautiful about where I am right now, rather than criticizing myself for what I'm not. We live in a culture where physical perfection and youth is revered, and so women over a certain age begin to feel irrelevant.

Sophie Heyman Uliano

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

Larry Winget

#10. And so the moral of his fabled travels read like Santiago's, the boy in Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist: Randy had traveled around the world in search of treasure and came home to find it in his own backyard. He

Eric Blehm

#11. 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

#12. Learn to be brave and adventurous because you'll never discover your place in the world, if you're too afraid to leave your own backyard.

Nina Guilbeau

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

Colin Powell

#14. 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 H. Conwell

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

Tony Kushner

#16. 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.

Rod Taylor

#17. Neither Europe nor the United States can afford to allow Xi's grandiose vision to materialize. And so they must allow Russia to compete with China for influence in its own backyard.

Anonymous

#18. 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?'

Melinda Gates

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

Rodney Atkins

#20. 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

#21. How cool is it to go into your own backyard, talk directly to the spirit of your own loved one and request a response from them in the form of a spirit photograph.

Robyn L. Reynolds

#22. When I was five, we moved to Virginia and lived inside an old fort that was surrounded by a moat. So when I heard stories of American history, I felt as if those dramas were taking place right in my own backyard.

Mary Pope Osborne

#23. I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.

Richard Bode

#24. 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 H. Conwell

#25. There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.

Patrick Rothfuss

#26. 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.

Sher Valenzuela

#27. I just try to, in my own way, contribute to making a better Hollywood, to move Hollywood to be a leader in social justice, as it always has been, and not to have any holes in their own backyard while they continue to push for equality and all the things that they always stand up for.

Russell Simmons

#28. My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.

Paula Zahn

#29. 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

#30. 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.

Steven Klein

#31. Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.

Jean Burden

#32. Don't go digging for silver in somebody else's backyard when you've got gold in your own.

Lattis R. Richards

#33. I always dreamed when I was a little girl interested in animals that I would go live in Africa. Then I found out that you can look in your backyard, and you can do your own safari.

Isabella Rossellini

#34. Don't believe you have to travel far and wide to discover opportunities. The best opportunities will always be found in your own back yard, and not half way around the world in someone else's backyard. You have to look for them, however.

Ernie J Zelinski

#35. 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.

Carrie Preston

#36. 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