Yards Quotes

453 quotes by 397 authors

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
Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her. — Jack Adams
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
In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River. — Daniel Boone
A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost like a football… — John O. Brennan
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
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. — Truman Capote
We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day. — Edward Carpenter
The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward… — Joshua Chamberlain
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I have to move. — George Clooney
It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all… — Glenn Close
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. — Hans Christian Andersen
OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. — Ambrose Bierce
Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as… — Arthur Conan Doyle
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
The hardest shot in golf is a mashie at 90 yards from the green, where the ball has to be played against an oak tree,… — Zeppo Marx
I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I… — Sam Snead
Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards. — Bobby Jones

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