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Yards Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with…
- The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible…
- 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…
- 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…
- Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
More Yards Quotes
- 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Joshua Chamberlain
- The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred… — 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… — George Clooney
- It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and… — Glenn Close