Yard Quotes

366 quotes by 317 authors

Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard. — John Bytheway
Yeah, that's all," said Dill. "He'll probably come out after you when he sees you in the yard, then Scout'n' me'll jump on him and… — Harper Lee
Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a mortuary. We'd go… — Chuck Palahniuk
He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard,… — Fannie Flagg
Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to… — Dean Koontz
I wasn't going to toss off words like love and forever until I was sure. Until he was sure. Forever can be a very long… — Rachel Vincent
There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a… — Kenneth Grahame
Where did that flashlight come from?" Chloe asked. "My purse." Chloe looked at Tara. "She carries a flashlight in her purse." "For emergencies," Maddie said,… — Jill Shalvis
The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead… — Jennifer Egan
I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who wear large jewelry. — Libba Bray
They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your… — Joe R. Lansdale
Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who… — Grace Paley
Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the… — Robin Hobb
Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing… — Barbara Kingsolver
Miss Celia stares down into the pot like she's looking for her future. "Are you happy, Minny?" "Why you ask me funny questions like that?"… — Kathryn Stockett
Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart. — Marguerite Duras
Iâ€™d like to go out in the front yard and shout something. â€œNone of this is worth it!â€ Thatâ€™s what Iâ€™d like people to hear. — Raymond Carver
He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building… — Charles Dickens
I didn't say I would start a yard." "You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and you'll have a nest of horses outside… — Maggie Stiefvater

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