Backyard Quotes

A lot of people think that homes like the one we're building are going to the South, which is still rebuilding after the hurricane season. But this home is going in our backyard, staying right here and helping a family on Long Island. - Ray Accettella

[Williams] is afraid I'm going to get hurt. He said there's no fine, but if I do it again, there will be a fine. It's only once in a blue moon you get to do that anyway, so it's not like it's an everyday thing they're taking away from us. I'd do it if there was no one in here. I did it when I was a little kid in my backyard during the summertime. - Mark Buehrle

[The hearings also came in the wake of the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, with significant numbers of the National Guard of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama deployed in Iraq.] It is time we looked after our own backyard... We cannot do this as long as we continue to make Iraq the fifty-first state. - Max Cleland

[Other WAP Forum members questioned the efficiency of wireless bandwidth that would be required to use such a device.] Over a wireless device, there is a fixed amount of spectrum and it has to be shared. The spectrum is limited and the amount of total capacity is limited... We cannot keep building cell sites. You cannot put a tower in every backyard. - Greg Williams

[Like tens of thousands of impressionable younger brothers, 6-year-old Keon Lattimore would follow his big brother out to the backyard for some football pointers. And like tens of thousands of older brothers, Ray Lewis -- nine years older, already a young man -- would cooperate, handing Lattimore a football and sending him off toward the other boys in the backyard.] Just run into 'em... Go hit somebody. - Ray Lewis

[During her sabbatical, she said, she would often sit in her backyard in Venice, Calif., thinking and playing with pine cones.] I was making little pine-cone people with razor blades... That's all I did. - Fiona Apple

[But it's the senior actors who remember what 1962 and bomb shelters were like.] We talked about (having a bomb shelter)... My dad marked it off in the backyard, but we were in too wet an area so it became a water-filled fort. - Sissy Spacek