Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Charles Walker

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

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.

We are really not dealing with a backyard operation.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.