Yard Quotes
366 quotes by 317 authors
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You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I won't be able to find…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house…
— Dan Chaon
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I believe that box lacrosse gives young people many more opportunities to excel in our game. If I had my choice, I would have every…
— Bill Tierney
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You know that when Irving puts the dog in the car, it is no longer in the yard. When Edna goes to church, her head…
— Steven Pinker
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You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or…
— Robin Yount
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We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it's not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody…
— Ryan Gosling
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The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw…
— Henry David Thoreau
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A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when…
— Bill Bryson
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Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will…
— Alexander Smith
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Let nature be in your yard.
— Greg Peterson
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A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but…
— Orison Swett Marden
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In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and…
— Lee Iacocca
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Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some…
— Richard Louv
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In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York - one's a Maltese…
— Jim Parsons
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The thought processes that go through my head when I'm playing a game compared to the thought processes in real life are very, very different.…
— John Romero
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Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler…
— Ron Rash
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There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.
— Paul J. Meyer
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Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored…
— Gerry Spence
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A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so…
— Julius Nyerere
Who Wrote These Yard Quotes
317 authors contributed a total of 366 Yard Quotes, led by these top contributors: