Yard Quotes - page 6

My dad put up a great hoop in our front yard in our driveway. I was in Oregon, so I had to be out there in the rain. We didn't always have a gym to go to. (Kevin Love)
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. View quote
Michael Arad
We all want to thank Emmitt for allowing us to enjoy every yard. View quote
Michael Irvin
If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house. View quote
Mike Harding
Give the enemy an inch, he'll take a yard. View quote
Monica Crowley
Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour. View quote
Mordecai Brown
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. View quote
Richard Louv
But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door during Prime Minister's question time. A spokesman at Scotland Yard said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. View quote
Ronnie Barker
When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard. View quote
Randy Houser
My husband and I have, in some ways, a non-traditional relationship - especially when it comes to domestic duties. He does most of the cooking, dishes, and laundry, while I do most of the yard work. I love to mow the lawn! And I take great satisfaction in planting and pruning. View quote
Therese Fowler
There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world. (Dave Grohl)
The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery. View quote
William Falconer
There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression ? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself. View quote
Zadie Smith
There should be a Kettle's Yard in every university. View quote
Jim Ede
Imagine a day when this yard will be crowded with hundreds of leaders of the country. They will compete with each other, argue with each other, insult each other, throw shoes, leather bags, teacups, microphones and chairs at each other, break each other's neck and determination, and then, at the end of the day, shamelessly compromise with each other for the sake of the party, and on the order of the leader. View quote
Neamat Imam
I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me. View quote
Alec Baldwin
I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming. View quote
Jennifer Garner
I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey. View quote
Steven Chu
If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again. View quote
Tom Waits
P. S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard. (Daniel Keyes)
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.' View quote
Walter Mosley
OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
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. View quote
Will Ferrell
I always wanted to play Lestrade of Scotland Yard 'cause he's a buffoon that gets to wear a uniform. I thought that would be fun. View quote
Tom Hanks