Yard Quotes
366 quotes by 317 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
— Truman Capote
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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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
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...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
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Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.
— Jim Bishop
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I hit a one-yard draw in there
— Tiger Woods
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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
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You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.
— Paul Dietzel
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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
Who Wrote These Yard Quotes
317 authors contributed a total of 366 Yard Quotes, led by these top contributors: