Yard Quotes

366 quotes by 317 authors

I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you… — Arthur Ashe
There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and… — Ezra Taft Benson
Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't… — Dan Buettner
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. — Truman Capote
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. — Hans Christian Andersen
OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. — Ambrose Bierce
The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a… — Charles Dickens
Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with… — Henry David Thoreau
Much of the fire with him [Ben Hogan] was lit by Byron Nelson, who came from the same town - the same caddie yard -… — Dan Jenkins
...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive. There is a comedy in… — John Updike
Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder. — Jim Bishop
Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round… — William Carlos Williams
The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his… — Robert Aris Willmott
Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is it not inevitable… — Ronald Knox
The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard… — Fred Hoyle
When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard. — John W. Gardner
I hit a one-yard draw in there — Tiger Woods
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell. — Charles Studd
You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life. — Paul Dietzel
The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge… — William Lyon Phelps

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