Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chelsea Clinton

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.

Scott Kazmir

We have an aggressiveness to us. It's like we're playing backyard baseball. It's a fun way to play.

We were having it in her backyard and felt we'd extend an invite to her.

Winter and spring are peak seasons for bird flu, and 60 per cent of China's domestic birds are raised on backyard farms with inadequate management, making epidemic prevention difficult.

We have to step up improvement of the primitive farming practice in China's rural regions, especially the backyard feeding of chickens and ducks in many rural households.

You always want to get the best talent in your own backyard and that is what we believe we got in Margie and Marina.

We are really not dealing with a backyard operation.

Because of that, we thought search-and-rescue would be important training. I think it's only a matter of time before Molly will try to open the backyard gate. It could be a matter of months.

J. R. Moehringer

Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches.

I have never heard of a funeral which is conducted at night, in the backyard of the family home and without the presence of the family.

Here is an opportunity for a great experience to play in our backyard in front of a lot of people and fans, ... As a coach you really think about wanting to win at state. You usually don't want to duck the better teams and usually Dade has the great teams. I look at it as a challenge.

Chuck D.

I think it's going to be a backyard brawl and it would be great to get that first 'W' on the board. But it's going to be like a street fight. This is the best JB team I've seen since I've been here (18 years). They've got good size and are physical. So we're expecting a fight.

He was playing point guard and directing teams all over the place at 6 years old. And Maggie was the same way. She just loved it. She used to play in the backyard all the time.

Jerry Angelo

I didn't like how we ended that '01 season. We got beat. It made us look weak, and I've got that taste in my mouth still. We just didn't look like we were ready to play. We got beat in our own backyard and got our butts kicked.

David Suzuki

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.

Nikolaas Tinbergen

As a boy, I had two small aquaria in our backyard in which I watched, each spring, the nest building and other fascinating behaviours of sticklebacks.

Nicholas Kristof

Maybe our best family trip started at Victoria Falls, which drenches you with spray and is so vast that it makes Niagara Falls seem like a backyard creek. Then we rented a car and made our way to Hwange National Park, which was empty of people but crowded with zebras, giraffes, elephants and more.

Charles Colson

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.

Brennan Manning

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.

We played a lot better today (than in the Backyard Brawl). Now we're looking forward to league play.

We'd like to have a good tour in our backyard but our biggest fish to fry this year are the Commonwealth Games.

Damian Kulash

We basically practiced it at our house for a week. And my sister, who is a dancer, helped choreograph it for our live show, ... We taped us doing it in the backyard not to use as our own video, but because we wanted to show the dance to a video director for this other idea we had that involved choreography to prove to him we were the band to do it. It turns out the director never even got it.

Nolan North

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.

Our kids and their kids are probably at the same backyard parties every summer, and I guess that has something to do with it.

Our goal is to win the conference and FAU is in the conference. They are a great team but we were able to come out and beat them. To come out of their backyard with a win is a blessing.

Jason Terry

People live up here because they love the outdoor world they want to turn a plain old backyard into a living space.

My philosophy has always been that you want to look in your backyard first, and if you have the quality of talent here, you want to go get that.

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.

I thought we played OK. That's not the easiest game to play when you're playing a team ... that tries to make it a backyard brawl.

Robert Patrick

I was working around the backyard and I looked up, 'Is that snow? Right on.'We don't have to go all the way to the mountains to see that now.

Hockey's our national sport and I think most people you talk to have their story about when they played in the backyard rink or on the pond.

I was playing backyard football wanting to play organized football, but my mother wouldn't let me.

I was out in the backyard catching balls.