Yards Quotes

453 Yards quotes by 385 unique authors

Ironic," Betty Lou said at last. "The cereus insists on sunlight---that's why it must be at the end of the yard. And yet it saves… — Jerry Spinelli
I just love family meetings. Very cozy, with the Christmas garlands round the fireplace and a nice pot of tea and a detective from Scotland… — Rick Riordan
A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as… — Stephenie Meyer
If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to… — Maya Angelou
Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles… — Ian Caldwell
If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred… — Laurie R. King
It was hard to remember what the yard had looked like even twelve hours before, undisturbed and pristine. Like it takes so little to change… — Sarah Dessen
The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe… — John Fowles
I tell myself that's what you get when you put thirty-one toilets on the most popular girl's front yard. People tend to treat you a… — Kathryn Stockett
Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and… — Fannie Flagg
I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here the start and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Remember when you picked me up like a frisbee and tossed me across you yard? — Alyson Noel
No: What the heck happened? Or: Why did you go from nearly kissing me to tossing me across your yard and into the patio furniture? — Alyson Noel
To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might… — Washington Irving
The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or… — Hunter S. Thompson
The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your… — Ellen Hopkins
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
Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards… — William Golding
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
I did not say anything. I was always embarresed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them,… — Ernest Hemingway
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

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