Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Lilja: Do you want to buy anything? Woman at yard sale: There's nothing to buy here!
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.
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.
By late autumn the yard would grow thick with fallen leaves, causing the landlady to heave many deep sighs.
When I was still at school, I'd help Dad at the concrete yard he had prior to the garden centre. I was doing things there, like driving the tractors and forklifts, that most kids my age couldn't.
I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.
I arose like a rose, and this is how I knew I was in love. In the garden of life, I’m better off in your neighbor’s yard.
I can run 50 yards faster than I can mow them.
There’s no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor’s yard.
A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller.
Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.
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.
At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.
Inch by inch it's all a cinch, by the yard it's hard. Go for it -- no matter how slow or long the process seems at first.
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
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.
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.
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.
There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it.
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.
