Yards Quotes

453 Yards quotes by 385 unique authors

There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a… — Kenneth Grahame
Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself. — Morris Gleitzman
Where did that flashlight come from?" Chloe asked. "My purse." Chloe looked at Tara. "She carries a flashlight in her purse." "For emergencies," Maddie said,… — Jill Shalvis
The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead… — Jennifer Egan
I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who wear large jewelry. — Libba Bray
They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your… — Joe R. Lansdale
Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who… — Grace Paley
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a… — Mark Twain
Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the… — Robin Hobb
Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing… — Barbara Kingsolver
Miss Celia stares down into the pot like she's looking for her future. "Are you happy, Minny?" "Why you ask me funny questions like that?"… — Kathryn Stockett
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter… — Barbara Kingsolver
Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart. — Marguerite Duras
I’d like to go out in the front yard and shout something. “None of this is worth it!” That’s what I’d like people to hear. — Raymond Carver
He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building… — Charles Dickens
I didn't say I would start a yard." "You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and you'll have a nest of horses outside… — Maggie Stiefvater
As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock… — Libba Bray
and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive… — Annie Proulx
As Stephanie and Lula were going after the bad guys, Lula was making preparations from the trunk of her Firebird. Stephanie looked inside and stopped… — Janet Evanovich
Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted.… — Lauren DeStefano
So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has a… — John Green
It's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top… — Tove Jansson
Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got. — Robert Benchley
When you smell our candles burning, what does it make you think of, my child?" Winterfell, she might have said. I smell snow and smoke… — George R. R. Martin

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