Famous Quotes & Sayings

I go out and do a snow dance every night but it doesn't seem to work. I could make more money jumping around in my backyard naked, because I'm sure not making any doing snow.

Kate Klise

Every writer dreams of having a backyard cottage, similar to Dahl's 'writing hut.' English cottages and charming huts might seem out of reach, but a good carpenter could build a modest cottage on the cheap.

One family talked about not being able to enjoy their backyard pool during this beautiful weather, ... We've got a husband of a family in the hospital this evening, with symptoms from cryptosporidiosis.

My backyard is flooded all of the time with water from the Villas, ... Their basements have been flooded; I live on a hill so my house is dry, but I can't mow a portion of my backyard because of the water standing. I'm concerned that with more drainage, it could come up to my house.

More people know about us all over the nation than in our own backyard which is pretty typical.

sit in their backyard and read trashy novels.

Since the beginning, we've been very fortunate. There have been no reports of injuries to any persons, and the only structural damage is one gazebo in one backyard of one property.

Charles Walker

She worked every day. She swam in the backyard pool with her daughters. She had just put the pool in.

Greg Biffle

We need a strong run to rebuild the momentum we have lost in the last few weeks. A win this week would be a great rebound from the points we lost last week, and a victory in Ford's backyard is always something we want.

If we find a migratory bird that's positive, what we would do is ... look for commercial operations, backyard operations that are in the vicinity of that find, and then we would do testing.

Dixie Carter

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.

Clyde Edgerton

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.

Summer Sanders

My parents wanted us to be pool-safe, so I had lessons when I was 18 months old. I would like to share with all the parents out there that I was that kid who cried during every one of my lessons. But it wasn't an option for my parents; we had a backyard pool, so I needed to learn how to swim.

Linda Miles

It's kind of backyard breeding. You get a bunch of dogs, and breed them and then sell them for profit. Generally it's called a puppy mill because it's not the excellence that you would expect from a qualified breeder.

It's really nice to get them outside at 6, 7 or 8 o'clock where they're in the backyard skating and I don't have to worry about them getting into trouble. It's nice to look out the back window and see the kids messing around on the ice ? as long as they're not fighting, which happens often.

It's our biggest rivalry game and our girls would like nothing better than to beat Silver in their backyard and win the district outright.

Doing Civil War re-enactments is something I live for. To have one in my backyard is great.

Dom Starsia

It truly doesn't matter. We know both teams well. It's a little bit like a backyard brawl whether it's Carolina or Maryland. It's going to be a great game.

Ed Begley, Jr.

Some would call me an environmentalist. I don't know why. I reuse the water that falls in my backyard in the winter. I reuse the trash and clippings I produce for mulch. I reuse the rain that falls on my roof, and I reuse the sun that shines on my house for energy. I guess you could call me a strategic opportunist as much as an environmentalist.

Flea

Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first band, and some kid climbed over the fence of my backyard and peeked his head in the window to see who was rocking. It was Slash.

Gabriel Basso

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.

We considered it one of the worst items in the bill. It's a slush fund for the oil and gas industry that would have been in the backyard of one of the more powerful members in Congress.

You have two choices. You can have unlimited, large-scale events, or you can have nice grass, but you can't have both. It was unlimited use that destroyed the park in the old days, so if you want the city's backyard to be in good shape, you have got to put limitations on its use.

Kylie Jenner

I wanted a house near my family in a quiet neighborhood with a front yard and a backyard that my dog will like.

Jane Hamilton

After about one hour of rain, the drainage ditch in the front of the house is so full it is halfway up the front yard. The backyard looks like a lake. We are on septic and every time it rains, you cannot use the bathroom facilities, and the smell of septic is very strong.

Coach always says this is like a backyard brawl. For some reason, us and Michigan State have always just had a thing for each other.

Tori Spelling

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?'

Keith Brooking

That's not something we were proud of. I can promise you that. You don't want other teams coming into your backyard and kicking you around like that. It's embarrassing.

Richard Petty

A lot of them also looked a little further down the line in the future than we did. We always did everything out of Level Cross (N.C.) in the backyard and we were fairly successful with the thing. Then it started being a bigger and bigger business. It started going and bringing more people in, more money, more technology, that kind of stuff. We still sat there in the backyard. By the time we got ready to do something about it, we were so far behind on our money and our engineering and all that stuff it's just taken us a little time to get going.

Jim Furyk

Having a Southwest Green in my backyard is a huge advantage for me on tour. I am pleasantly surprised just how true the ball rolls and reacts to chip and pitch shots. I love my Southwest Green.

And we will have 1,200 homes in our backyard that can drive their golf carts in to shop,

Each year we have 30 to 40,000 tons of primitive material from comets and asteroids that lands on Earth, and this is about one particle per square meter per day. So during the course of our seven-year mission, there was more comet dust collected in your backyard than what we're bringing home.

Beautiful spaces create beautiful minds(C). The Wren's Nest's backyard of rolling land lovingly renovated into a cross-generational reading garden invites reading, storytelling and reflection with flowers, plants, trees, bushes, benches, paths and other touches.