Yards Quotes
453 Yards quotes by 385 unique authors
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The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had…
— Marian Keyes
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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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Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.
— Craig Ferguson
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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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Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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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
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This is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some little bad days, and I kept them in a little…
— Tom Waits
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I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your…
— Anne Lamott
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I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence. I need it…
— Pascal Mercier
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And Max, I've put some scraps in a bowl for your dog," Mom said. "It's on the floor, by the back door." The flock and…
— James Patterson
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If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there,…
— L. Frank Baum
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Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard…
— Anne Lamott
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THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no…
— Ellen Hopkins
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See what? I didn’t see anything. There were no scary people there. Nothing freaky. I’m going home now and tomorrow I’m going to have the…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Who Wrote These Yards Quotes
385 authors contributed a total of 453 Yards Quotes, led by these top contributors: