Yards Quotes - Page 21

• My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard Observatory. For the next few years, I regularly made star maps and snuck out at night to make observations from a locust tree in our back yard.

  Dudley R. Herschbach

  Stars, Science, Night

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• Amarillio, just turn to the left and 500 yards down

  Peter Kay

  Fake People, Turns, Left

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• Women: Can't live with them, can't bury them in the back yard without the neighbors seeing.

  Shaun Williamson

  Funny, Women, Neighbor

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• 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.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Technology, Men, Fire

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Mark Nesbitt (1996). “Through Blood & Fire: Selected Civil War Papers of Major General Joshua Chamberlain”, p.91, Stackpole Books

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• 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.

  Alan Shepard

  Sports, School, Recess

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• It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy the miracle of seeing these puzzling patches suddenly fall into one place and come to life before our eyes.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Fall, Eye, Appreciate

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• As long as I can stay north or south, I'm gaining yards.

  Jamal Lewis

  Long, South, I Can

  "Jamal Lewis: First and Ten". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. September 24, 2003.

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• It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.

  Eli Manning

  Basketball, Football, Growing Up

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• In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York - one's a Maltese and the other's a Shih Tzu.

  Jim Parsons

  Dog, New York, Two

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• Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

  Trevor Phillips

  Children, Parks, Prison

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• The thought processes that go through my head when I'm playing a game compared to the thought processes in real life are very, very different. And they're more interesting to me than what you think about when you're doing the dishes, cleaning the yard, watching TV, driving or watching a movie.

  John Romero

  Real, Thinking, Games

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• Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in 'The Trusty' was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.

  Ron Rash

  Moving, Character, Water

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• Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard.

  Arthur J. Deikman

  Children, Fear, Dark

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• I walked slowly out on the beach. A few yards below high-water mark I stopped and read the words again: WRITE YOUR WORRIES ON THE SAND. I let the paper blow away, reached down and picked up a fragment of shell. Kneeling there under the vault of the sky, I wrote several words, one above the other. Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Beach, Writing, Adversity

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• I'm heavier, but with muscle rather than flab. It's a massive difference. It means I don't get as tired sometimes and it means that I'm hitting the ball a lot farther, about 15 yards more with my driver.

  Lee Westwood

  Tired, Mean, Differences

  "Leaner and meaner". Interview with Bill Elliott, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who are no longer strangers, but friends who delight in the edible rewards offered from a garden they discovered together. Imagine small strips of land between apartment buildings that have been turned into vegetable gardens, and urban orchards planted at schools and churches to grow food for our communities. The seeds of the urban farming movement already are growing within our reality.

  Greg Peterson

  School, Reality, Garden

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• Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Rocks, Fishing

  "Saving Kids from 'Nature Deficit Disorder'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 25, 2005.

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• I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.

  Mark Leyner

  Looks, Manuscripts, I Can

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• They did the Monster Mash, it was a grave yard smash.

  Bobby Pickett

  Dancing, Monsters, Graves

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• Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there will be to trouble the gardener the following year.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Years, Support, Bird

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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

  Thalassa Cruso

  Garden, People, Pleasure

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• 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.

  Jules Verne

  Fifty, Bullets, Cows

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Robur the Conqueror”, p.4, Jules Verne

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• Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Kids, Civilization, Two

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• When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.

  Fran Kranz

  Wall, Kids, Blood

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• The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.

  Avery Brundage

  Inspirational, Men, Toes

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