Turf Quotes

Turf Quote of the day

Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking!

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf

It's an honor to support such a worthy program.TURF aims to protect the integrity of tailgating and to keep game day family-friendly.

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.

A miraculous healing awaits this planet once we accept our new responsibility to collectively tend the Garden, rather than fight over the turf.

I think that the great part of creativity is overcoming fear. Fear is a given. When you sit down and have to begin something, don't be afraid to be filled with fear, because it goes with the turf.

There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass.

Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.

Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.

When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It's an extraordinary thing. It's wild turf up there.

He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.

I think he [Raul] is the greatest player to have ever played the game. He walks on the turf and astounds. It is utterly amazing.

Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls.

Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.

The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the dark some soul yells. It hurts to walk barefoot on cowrie shells.

To get the best coaching outcomes, always have your 1-on-1's on your employee's turf not yours. In your office the truth hides.

All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testosterone and heroism.

I like the idea of challenging Hollywood on its own turf. It's important to do that.

Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb; But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest of the year.

No cricketer is so dependent on the turf on which the game is played as the spinner; it can make, break, enfang or defang him.

I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of the century.

I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.

For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf. For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core of the Earth. The exhale's volcanic, the inhale is seismic.

Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.

When you go to plant a flag on the visiting team's field, it's a form of taunting, .. What message are you sending when you spear it into the turf of your defeated opponent?.

Every time I set foot on the Bernabeu turf I got the jitters, a kind of anxiety that takes hold of you the moment you step out into the glare of the floodlights.

You can convene a wider cross-section if you have no turf to defend, because then you don't cut across anyone else's agenda and you can achieve a great deal.

You have to get out in the world and meet folks on their own turf, something which a lot of urban radical intellectuals seldom do.

I never seem to be able to sell my films correctly in the U.S. The U.S. defends itself on its own turf.

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.

It is only natural to expect that guilds will tend to "protect their turf" and to resist challenge.

One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but they're always on the same turf. I don't have those limitations.

I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf, And me an' my friends can walk towards you with our hats on backwards in a menacing way, Yo!

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground.

Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.

The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes human Astro-Turf in a kind of spiritual Superbowl between God and Satan.