Yards Quotes

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

When it comes to your marriage, if the grass looks greener somewhere else, it's time to water your own yard!

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.

A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.

I just show up to the yard, work hard, and play as hard as I can.

He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him.

He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.

A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller.

One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.

An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

Life by the yard is hard; by the inch it's a cinch. Each of us can be true for just one day--and then one more and then one more after that--until we've lived a lifetime guided by the Spirit, a lifetime close to the Lord, a lifetime of good deeds and righteousness.

Let nature be in your yard.

I've hurt you. I've loved you. I've mowed the front yard.

Meaningless yards are not meaningful.

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

The best way to gain more yards is advance the ball down the field from the line of scrimmage.

I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.

The referee was only five or seven yards away from that incident.

When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.

Every Saturday we work in the yard, pick up the dog doo, hope that it's hard.

Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).

Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.

The human body has absolutely no requirement for animal flesh. Nobody has ever been found face-down 20 yards from Burger King because they couldn't get their Whopper in time.

Though snails are exceedingly slow, There is one thing I'd like to know. If I out run 'em round the yard, How come they beat me to the chard?

There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.

Life by the yard is hard; by the inch it's a cinch. Decisions Determine Destiny.

Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.

In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard.

Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.

Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick?

Undertaker, your yard is right in the middle of my world!

The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line.

Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.

The big thing is, everybody says it's being in the right place at the right time. But it's more than that, it's being in the right place all the time. Because if I make 20 runs to the near post and each time I lose my defender, and 19 times the ball goes over my head or behind me - then one time I'm three yards out, the ball comes to the right place and I tap it in - then people say, right place, right time. And I was there *all* the time.

My life, between 22 yards for 24 years... It's hard to imagine that this is coming to an end.

I was in the back part of the bunker, so I had to carry the whole bunker. It was probably 20 yards.

We need to think less NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), and more SWIMBY (Something Wonderful In My Back Yard)

You go where the work is. It can be in my own back yard, Israel, Spain, or Yugoslavia. We may have the greatest technical efficiency in the world, but our artistic values are not necessarily the best.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

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

Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard.

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.

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

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.

It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.

There's a freeway running through the yard.

The hardest shot in golf is a mashie at 90 yards from the green, where the ball has to be played against an oak tree, bounces back into a sandtrap, hits a stone, bounces on the green and then rolls into the cup. That shot is so difficult I have made it only once.