Yards Quotes - Page 3

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

  James Howard Kunstler

  Three, Way, Ruins

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root.

  C. S. Lewis

  Flower, Boys, Men

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• Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Love, Children, Sleep

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.165, A&C Black

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• The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world.

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, California, Perfect

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.17, Penguin

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• In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.

  James Wright

  Blue, Laughing, Tree

  James Wright (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.125, Wesleyan University Press

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• Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

  John Knowles

  Peace, Children, Men

  John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.

  Ben Okri

  Gold, Neglect

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• 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Links, Libertarian, Christmas Carol

  1843 A Christmas Carol, stave 1.

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• Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Swans, Ugly Duckling, Eggs

  Hans Christian Andersen (2016). “Best Fairy Tales”, p.129, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.

  Arthur Ashe

  Art, Moving, Balls

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

  Daniel Boone

  Kentucky, Rivers, Enemy

  John Filson, Daniel Boone (1793). “The discovery, settlement and present state of Kentucky, and an introduction to the topography and natural history of that ... country. Also colonel Daniel Boon's narrative of the wars of Kentucky”, p.43

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• A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost like a football coach, when you draw the X's and O's: Every play that is chalked on that board goes for a touchdown. Well, there are a lot of yards to be made between the line of scrimmage and the touchdown.

  John O. Brennan

  Football, Taken, Play

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• Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.

  Dan Buettner

  Exercise, Garden, People

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

  Edward Carpenter

  Night, Sea, Two

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Ocean, Live Life, Thinking

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.155, Google Publishing

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• 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.

  Will Ferrell

  Stuff, Yard Sale, Knows

  "Interview with Actor Will Farrell". Interview with Nobuhiro Hosoki, hosokinema.com. May 12, 2011.

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

  W. C. Fields

  Nature, Night, Camping

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• Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Talking, House

  Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

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• 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.

  Noel Gallagher

  Believe, Doors, Lazy

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

  Paul McCartney

  Junk, Window, Shops

  Song: Junk, Album: McCartney

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• Derek caught my arm again as I started to move--at this rate, it was going to be as sore as my injured one. "Dog," he said, jerking his chin toward the fenced yard. "It was inside earlier." Expecting to see a Doberman slavering at the fence, I followed his gaze to a little puff of white fur, the kind of dog women stick in their purses. It wasn't even barking, just staring at us, dancing in place. "Oh, my God! It's a killer Pomeranian." I glanced up at Derek. "It's a tough call, but I think you can take him.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Dog, Moving, Thinking

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “The Awakening: Number 2 in series”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

  Pete Sampras

  Sports, Fall, Swings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.

  Eddie Vedder

  Careers, House, Guilt

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• Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the pale light of tomorrow on the yard and on the paper birches.

  Dean Koontz

  Moon, Mirrors, Light

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• I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She reminded me that the world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates while whistling melts a bee's temper. Act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Thinking, Long, Bees

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.92, Penguin

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