Yard Quotes

366 quotes by 300 authors

I always wanted to play Lestrade of Scotland Yard 'cause he's a buffoon that gets to wear a uniform. I thought that would be fun. — Tom Hanks
If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape… — Lyndon B. Johnson
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're… — Harmon Killebrew
I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as… — Ziggy Marley
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard. — Paul McCartney
There are a lot of 'chicken Christians.' Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when… — Joyce Meyer
There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then… — Wentworth Miller
I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it… — Walter Mosley
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. — Jesse Owens
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute… — Ross Perot
Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee… — Iggy Pop
My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting… — Wilbur Smith
Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you… — Zadie Smith
You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the… — Eddie Vedder
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the… — Robert Anton Wilson
I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She… — Sue Monk Kidd
I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free… — Charles Dickens
She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part… — Betty Smith
At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand.… — C.S. Lewis
The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved… — Jack Kerouac

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300 authors contributed a total of 366 Yard Quotes, led by these top contributors: