Side Yard Quotes

#1. When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of the large white house in which we lived throughout my boyhood. This tree I learned quite early, was exactly my age - was, in a sense, me.

John Updike

#2. I'm not interested in making clothes that are not accessible.

Amber Valletta

#3. One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either win or lose, but climbing is about your own personal experience.

Chris Sharma

#4. There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Albert Camus

#5. For individuals' behavior to change, you've got to influence not only their environment but their hearts and minds.

Chip Heath

#6. When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.

Eoin Colfer

#7. The Chinese had a saying that had been in her mind for a while, troubling her: Society prepares the crime; the criminal only commits it.

James Patterson

#8. The buildings of the great city of Placeholder sprawled either side of the dark crack of the river like boils on buttocks. There

Barnaby Yard

#9. It was a large, neatly kept cottage, with a well-tended yard full of chickens. Hollyhocks grew along the side, in shades of red and violet, unless magic had gotten into them again, in which case they had a tendency to go plaid.

T. Kingfisher

#10. Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. Couldn't something temporary be done with a teapot?

Charles Dickens

#12. The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it's not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody had a pile of rocks in their backyard and spent every day moving them from one side of the yard to the other, it would be a much happier place.

Ryan Gosling

#13. Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind in the water.

Ernest Hemingway,

#15. As though I had displeased the gods with my erotic hubris, I managed to be the only bisexual girl in the history of colleges who failed to arouse the interest of the campus queers immediately upon setting foot in the dorms.

Valentine Glass