Turf Quotes: top 37 famous quotes about Turf

Turf Quotes & Sayings

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Clean of officious fence or hedge, Half-wild and wholly tame, The wise turf cloaks the white cliff-edge As when the Romans came. — Helen Simonson

Never fight turf on turf. Fight it on the basis of ideas. — Elliott Abrams

He looked at her for a long moment, as if remembering unfinished conversations, and then went back to place some damp, slow-burning turf on the fire. — Pete Hamill

I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf. — Laura Hillenbrand

His workplace has become a rat's nest of empire building, turf defense, careerism, backstabbing, betrayal, and snitchcraft. — Thomas Pynchon

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

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf. — Helen Thomas

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

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

The Time Machine was left deserted on the turf among the rhododendrons. — H.G.Wells

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

Some of my friends who play rugby talk about Murrayfield Stadium as sacred turf. — Alexander McCall Smith

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

Life isn't good, life isn't bad. Instead I'm floating on a turf somewhere in between. — Alysha Speer

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. — Luis Figo

Then we have an understanding. Keep the riffraff off my turf or I mop the floor with all of you. (ZT) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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. — J.I. Packer

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

I enjoy learning about the new technologies. I enjoy getting to know the new fans and dealing with them on their turf. — Lea Thompson

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

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. — Gideon Haigh

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

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. — Marcus Buckingham

Thunder and turf! — Julie Klassen

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

No place does home-turf nutjobs like America. — Erin Moore

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

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

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

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

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

The few heroic sluts on this great working-girl turf — Christopher Hitchens

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. — Virginia Woolf

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

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. — Boomer Esiason

He might have gotten his way in the hallway earlier, but now he's on my turf. He isn't gonna push me around. — Melyssa Winchester

Wimps take life as it comes; superior people slap life up the side of the head until it gives them turf. — Jim Davis