Yards Quotes - Page 5

In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.

There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds.

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.

Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.

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.

Jerry (Rice) played until he was 42. At 39, I ran a 4.43 40-yard dash. You look at the number of dropped balls and the way guys are playing now and you can't honestly say I can't do better.

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people.

I could throw a pass to a spot as well as anyone who ever lived - But that's a God-given talent. I could never stand back and flick the ball 60 yards downfield with my wrists like Dan Marino does.

Shoot you on the front porch and knock you to the back yard.

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

The stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yard! America's chickens are coming home to roost!

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

My dad never pushed me but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me.

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it was going to go to Roseville. We got off it and got on another train. And we got to Roseville, and it takes hours to get through that yard. It's really big. So we ended up just coming back here. It's like fishing or hunting. You can't always come back with something.

The collisions happen 40 yards down the field, so if you take off from 5 yards or 10, it does not even matter. Do I make sense? I mean, come on.

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

Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention.

I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.