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• I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.

  Michael Arad

  Cities, People, Navy

  "Test Drive" by Paul Goldberger, www.newyorker.com. October 12, 2007.

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• Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children?

  Caroline Paul

  Children, Giving, Growing

  Caroline Paul (2013). “Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology”, p.140, A&C Black

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• 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.

  Fred Hoyle

  Our World, Junk, Boeing

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• In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid.

  Jay Smith

  Queens, Eight, Cells

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• Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic.

  James Gleick

  Communication, Writing, Echoes

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• My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much as I loved clothes. And that's saying something. The feel of them and the smell of them. A bookshop was like like an Aladdin's Cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look.

  Hilma Wolitzer

  Book, Smell, Clothes

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• My house is made out of balsa wood, so when I want to scare the neighborhood kids I lift it over my head and tell them to get out of my yard or I'll throw it at them.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Kids

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• No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there.
  [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]

  George Herbert

  Men, Church, Desire

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• 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.

  Esther Williams

  Office, Firsts, Study

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• A cat likes to hear you calling him. He sits in a bush a yard from your shoes - and listens.

  Pam Brown

  Cat, Shoes, Calling

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• Each dog barks in his own yard!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Dog, Bark

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Mowgli of the Jungle Book: The Complete Stories”, p.19, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Please remember the hundreds of tiny empty stomachs in our communities. Winter is a tough time for birds and other small creatures as food can become buried beneath snow or frozen ground. Scatter seeds in your yard, nearby parks.

  Alex Pacheco

  Winter, Animal, Snow

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• 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?

  Allen Klein

  Running, Garden, Ems

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• If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

  Steven Levitt

  Children, Swimming, Gun

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• The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the water, then we saw the huge blue-black bulk glide quietly under the raft right beneath our feet. It lay there for some time, dark and motionless, and we held our breath as we looked down on the gigantic curved back of a mammal a good deal longer than the raft.

  Virginia Woolf

  Time, Dark, Blue

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

  Joe Walsh

  Dog, Honesty, Saturday

  Song: Ordinary Average Guy

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• Lifting weights is obviously important, because you want to be strong and fast and all of that, but it's not one of those things you gotta go and try to bench as much as you can every day. A bench press isn't going to help you throw a 15-yard out or a deep comeback. It's not about that. It's about training right

  Mark Sanchez

  Strong, Lifting Weights, Training

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• It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, 3 hours in a seasick steamer, & after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak 3 times, & then be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

  John Masefield

  Home, Sick, Navy

  "Letters of John Masefield to Florence Lamont".

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• Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.

  Lincoln Peirce

  Mean, School, Towels

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• I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.

  John Davis Long

  War, Gun, Men

  John Davis Long (1956). “Journal”

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• My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Uncles, Grandfather, Navy

  Dave Van Ronk (2013). “The Mayor of MacDougal Street [2013 edition]: A Memoir”, p.4, Da Capo Press

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• And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters of language, the perverts, who have set money-lust Before the pleasures of the senses; howling, as of a hen-yard in a printing-house, the clatter of presses, the blowing of dry dust and stray paper, foetor, sweat, the stench of stale oranges.

  Ezra Pound

  Dust, Sweat, Orange

  Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (2010). “New Selected Poems and Translations”, p.152, New Directions Publishing

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• If a garden require it, now trench it ye may, one trench not a yard, from another go lay; Which being well filled with muck by and by, to cover with mould, for a season to lie.

  Thomas Tusser

  Lying, Garden, May

  Thomas Tusser (1848). “Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, newly corrected and ed. by H.M.W. [2 issues].”, p.38

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

  Craig Groeschel

  Somewhere Else, Water, Looks

  Twitter post from Apr 10, 2012

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• And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who invented the tree in my front yard, the beauty of my sweetheart, the taste of a blueberry, the violence of a river at flood. There are a lot of religious trends that would have us controlling God, telling us that if we do this that and the other, God will jump through our hoops like a monkey. But this other God, this real God, is awesome and strong, all-encompassing and passionate, and for reasons I will never understand, he wants to father us.

  Donald Miller

  Religious, Strong, Father

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