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- Nov 07, 2020
Backyard Quotes
On practicing at home, overlooking your surroundings, and backyard life.
These quotes treat the backyard as both a training ground and a blind spot, a place where people practice difficult skills or overlook what's right in front of them. One entry connects the idea to Been quotes about lived experience.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Mexico
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
- Government Spending
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't play organized football until I was in the seventh grade. Up until that point, I only played at recess and in the backyard.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.
- Nov 07, 2020
We train very hard under windy conditions. I've actually walked a wire in my backyard with 90-mile-an-hour winds.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had maybe watched 'The Apprentice' a couple of times. I didn't know that in later seasons they deported half of their contestants into tents in the backyard. They called it Trump's trailer park.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would come home and re-create every movie. Our backyard became a battleship, a war zone, a western town.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
The JCPOA has made the world safer. The deal ensures that Israel does not have to live with the threat of a nuclear Iran in its backyard.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020