Yards Quotes - Page 9

• Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Should Have, Impatience, Hundred

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.235, Penguin

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• When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick. Their young life is thatched with them. Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hang it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Children, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2389, Delphi Classics

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• By the time I was twelve, I had started my own theater company and was doing plays in the backyard and the front yard and all over the neighborhood, so, you know, I was definitely a lifer even back when I was 10.

  Carrie Preston

  Play, Twelve, Back When

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

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• I come from down south, where vegetation does not know its place. Honeysuckle can work through cracks in your walls and strangle you while you sleep. Kudzu can completely shroud a house and a car parked in the yard in one growing season. Wisteria can lift a building off its foundation, and certain terrifying mints spread so rapidly that just the thought of them on a summer night can make your hair stand on end.

  Bailey White

  Summer, Wall, Sleep

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• I would sacrifice 1,000 yards rushing to win a Super Bowl. But I want to be the first back to have back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons.

  Adrian Peterson

  Sacrifice, Winning, Rushing

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• My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. I took a picture. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned. I saw this picture the other day for the first time in years and realized how photographing life within a hundred yards of my front porch had helped me focus on everything I cared about.

  Larry Towell

  Tired, Years, Wife

  "10 Photographers Share ‘An Image That Changed Everything’ And The Stories Behind Them" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.
  Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.
  When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,
  “Nothing, I just helped him cry.²”
  “Even after all this time
  the sun never says to the earth
  “You owe me”
  Look what happens with a love like that,
  It lights the whole sky..”

  Hafez

  Mother, Children, Boys

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• 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.

  Thomas S. Monson

  One Day, Deeds, Spirit

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• For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow sherbet and Neapolitan ice cream. The mounds, some 100 feet tall, sprout delicate treelike gorgonians that sift currents for a plankton meal. Fish, worms and other creatures dart or crawl in every crevice. This description could apply to thousands of coral reefs in shallow, sun-streaked tropical waters from Australia to the Bahamas. But this is the Sula Ridge, 1,000 feet down in frigid darkness on the continental shelf 100 miles off Norway's coast.

  James Dwight Dana

  Nature, Ice, Feet

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• It’s not difficult to coach to just get 10 players right on your 18-yard box.

  Brendan

  Player, Boxes, Difficult

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• They're in the red zone. They're in the last 20 yards, and you can't let them cross that goal line. You can't let them score a touchdown, because that would have unbelievable consequences, grievous consequences for the peace and security of us all, of the world really.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Goal, World

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• And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the Church into the Church-yard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the Patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebian bran.

  John Donne

  Flower, Men, Dust

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• You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I won't be able to find the things I need for my transport spells if you tidy them up.'So there was probably a bundle of souls or a box of chewed hearts somewhere out here, Sophie thought. She felt really thwarted. 'Tidying up is what I'm here for!' she shouted at Howl. 'Then you must think of a new meaning for your life,' Howl said.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Heart, Thinking, Soul

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• 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.

  Frances Mayes

  Land, Car, Plot

  "'Tuscan Sun' author on Italy's pleasures". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2010.

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• Ask a glass of water why it pities
  the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash.

  Terrance Hayes

  Dog, Rain, Glasses

  Terrance Hayes (2010). “Lighthead”, p.14, Penguin

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• What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.

  Eugene Field

  Men, Smell, Smoking

  Eugene Field (1900). “The Tribune Primer”

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• I think there was something that made us not pay attention to climate change. Something that was up there. There was a saying when we were trying to pay attention to the environment that people used this phrase NIMBY - not in my back yard. People were saying, ‘I don’t care, it is not in my back yard.’ But now it’s in everyone’s back yard.

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Robert Redford: We Have to Act on Climate Change Without Washington". Interview with Vivienne Walt, time.com. December 6, 2015.

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• It's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top with a woodpile and chopping block - but bogs go right on behaving like bogs. Early in the spring they breathe ice and make their own mist, in remembrance of the time when they had black water and their own sedge blossoming untouched.

  Tove Jansson

  Block, Spring, Rocks

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• I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

  Walter Mosley

  Father, Thinking, People

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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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• In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives and give each of them very a convincing voice. It's like playing tennis with yourself and you have to be on both sides of the yard. You have to be on both sides, or all sides if there are more than two sides.

  Amos Oz

  Writing, Two Sides, Voice

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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

  John Bytheway

  Inches, Hard

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