Yards Quotes - Page 3

Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.

In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard.

Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?

I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.

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

Undertaker, your yard is right in the middle of my world!

Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick?

The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line.

We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality.

Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

The big thing is, everybody says it's being in the right place at the right time. But it's more than that, it's being in the right place all the time. Because if I make 20 runs to the near post and each time I lose my defender, and 19 times the ball goes over my head or behind me - then one time I'm three yards out, the ball comes to the right place and I tap it in - then people say, right place, right time. And I was there *all* the time.

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.

I was in the back part of the bunker, so I had to carry the whole bunker. It was probably 20 yards.

My life, between 22 yards for 24 years... It's hard to imagine that this is coming to an end.

The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals

The best way to learn about wine is in the drinking

We need to think less NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), and more SWIMBY (Something Wonderful In My Back Yard)

When the homebrewers stop entering the profession, and the backyard breweries are squeezed out, then it will become stagnant.

Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Remember your reproaches to those who are filled with foolishness all through the day. Listen to our prayers, for foxes have arisen seeking to destroy the vineyard whose winepress you alone have trod.

Amarillio, just turn to the left and 500 yards down

It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or grain; but something to be left for the poor. For covetousness is never to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants. Such insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings into evil.

You go where the work is. It can be in my own back yard, Israel, Spain, or Yugoslavia. We may have the greatest technical efficiency in the world, but our artistic values are not necessarily the best.

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.