Quote by John Betjeman
Peoples backyards are much more interesting than their front garde

Peoples backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. – John Betjeman

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I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score. – John Betjeman

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Future, The
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Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me its the oil of life. – John Betjeman

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Poetry
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Keep our Empire undismembered guide our Forces by Thy Hand, gallant blacks from far Jamaica, Honduras and Togoland; protect them Lord in all their fights, and even more, protect the whites. – John Betjeman

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Empire
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I get so frustrated when people tell me its unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance. – Suze Orman

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Home

Peace — that was the other name for home. – Kathleen Norris

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Home

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long. – Buffalo Bill

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Home

I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me. – Rosie ODonnell

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As men get older, the toys get more expensive. – Marvin Davis

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I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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How many merits one sees in those one likes! how many faults in those one dislikes! Yet people fancy they see with their eyes. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the presidents. – John F. Kennedy

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