Yards Quotes

The bad news was that the yard contained a dog. A very, very large dog, wide and hairy, like a cross between a rottweiler and a Goodyear blimp.

Amarillio, just turn to the left and 500 yards down

I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.

If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

He seems faster too me. He could get seven to 10 yards in a pretty comfortable fashion. I went up to our defense and said 'Hey guys, that guy is pretty fast.'

I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard.

There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.

I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy.

There's a freeway running through the yard.

The squirrel in my yard really knows his way around the neighborhood.

There's nothing worth photographing more than 100 yards from the car

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds.

Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.

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 upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.

He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.

The stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yard! America's chickens are coming home to roost!

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

Shoot you on the front porch and knock you to the back yard.

I could throw a pass to a spot as well as anyone who ever lived - But that's a God-given talent. I could never stand back and flick the ball 60 yards downfield with my wrists like Dan Marino does.

Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.

Jerry (Rice) played until he was 42. At 39, I ran a 4.43 40-yard dash. You look at the number of dropped balls and the way guys are playing now and you can't honestly say I can't do better.

I've never had a yard sale, ever, in my life. I don't know if I ever thought about stuff I would get rid of.

A lot of times I did lose yards on a run, but it wasn't for lack of trying.

It is no more likely that our world has evolved out of chaos than that a hurricane, blowing through a junk yard, should create a Boeing.

You might be a redneck if you have flowers planted in a bathroom appliance in your front yard.

It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard.

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world.

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.

At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

The collisions happen 40 yards down the field, so if you take off from 5 yards or 10, it does not even matter. Do I make sense? I mean, come on.

Greyhound Bus Lines motto: "We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards."

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.

I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.

I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond.

I'm not an athlete; I'm a quarterback. I don't have great speed, and I can't throw 90 yards down the field. I win games because I've done the mental preparation.

Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard.

A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.

The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.

The ref was vertically 15 yards away.

It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards.

The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.