Yard Quotes
366 quotes by 313 authors
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On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it…
— Jack Kerouac
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The bad news was that the yard contained a dog. A very, very large dog, wide and hairy, like a cross between a rottweiler and…
— Dave Barry
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Dear America, I suppose we should introduce ourselves: We're South Louisiana...You probably already know that we talk funny and listen to strange music and eat…
— Chris Rose
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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that…
— George Bernard Shaw
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It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back…
— Jodi Picoult
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She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning…
— Lisa Genova
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But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree…
— Betty Smith
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Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.
— Ben Okri
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Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the…
— Khaled Hosseini
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When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.
— Eoin Colfer
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Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I…
— Dean Koontz
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The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's friend, saw them…
— Ayn Rand
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Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.
— John Knowles
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Derek caught my arm again as I started to move--at this rate, it was going to be as sore as my injured one. "Dog," he…
— Kelley Armstrong
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I've hurt you. I've loved you. I've mowed the front yard.
— Matthew Dickman
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Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the pale light of tomorrow on…
— Dean Koontz
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You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through…
— Betty Smith
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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a…
— Louis Armstrong
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If they'd been dogs, they would have all been in the yard eating grass and trying to yak up whatever was making them feel so…
— Christopher Moore
Who Wrote These Yard Quotes
313 authors contributed a total of 366 Yard Quotes, led by these top contributors: