Yards Quotes · Page 4

Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.

— Anonymous

You might be a redneck if you have flowers planted in a bathroom appliance in your front yard.

— Jeff Foxworthy

Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.

— Robert Benchley

My whole motto is get four yards, and if I get more than four, that's fine.

— Corey Dillon

He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him.

— Bobby Robson

My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.

— Bill Kurtis

The best way to gain more yards is advance the ball down the field from the line of scrimmage.

— John Madden

“A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I could run 200 yards at a stretch, I could duck between players, I felt free to make plays that suited me…

— Jim Brown

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I've always wanted children... not of my own, but for yard work and reaching into tight places to get things I've dropped.

— Dov Davidoff

I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the…

— Carolina Maria de Jesus

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and…

— Glenn Close

I don't want to be one of these filmmakers that hit you over the head with my agenda or my opinion. I…

— Ric Roman Waugh

I went out in my yard and saw a snake, so I got really scared, and I came back inside to get…

— Charlie Viracola

My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at…

— Eric Hoffer

I just love people. I love this country. I am the American dream. I grew up by the airport with a dirt…

— Jeff Foxworthy

Me being in my grandmother's yard in Brooklyn. I must have been about 3. I had this red balloon. I let go…

— Lenny Kravitz

There are a lot of 'chicken Christians.' Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in…

— Joyce Meyer

After 'The Hobbit,' I have no idea if things will change. I suspect if I still want to act I will have…

— Mark Hadlow

If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But…

— Martin Luther

The wife picked out ceramic tile for floor covering, not realizing that cost was determined by square foot, not square yard like…

— Jim Harrison

Late February, and the air's so balmy snowdrops and crocuses might be fooled into early blooming. Then, the inevitable blizzard will come,…

— Gail Mazur

As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

To build enormous palaces, to conquer or to mimic nature, to ransack the world in order to gratify the passions of a…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line,…

— Mary Travers

Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to…

— Joseph Addison

Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Yeah, okay. You're right. I was having dinner with Zombie Carl the other night. You know, steak, rare, and a bottle of…

— Gena Showalter

The best treatment for feet encased in shoes all day is to go barefoot. One-fifth of the world's population never wears shoes…

— Stephanie Tourles

“I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We…

— Ernest Hemingway

The squirrel in my yard really knows his way around the neighborhood.

— Bob Saget

Of course, I want to end every single year over 1,000 yards.

— Justin Jefferson

I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard.

— M.M. Kaye

Every Saturday we work in the yard, pick up the dog doo, hope that it's hard.

— Joe Walsh

An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

— Booker T. Washington

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

— Edward Weston

If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.

— Mike Harding

The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line.

— Stirling Moss