Top 599 Yard Quotes & Sayings

I'm from Louisiana, and I'm used to having space and a yard.

Late in the third quarter the Cougars were behind 12-0. Duva had completed 5 out of 20 passes. Edwards looked at Gifford Nielsen. Giff had never done a thing, in practice or anywhere else, to give us confidence in him. . . . . . . the coach said later. He sent him into the game anyway. First play was a 19-yard completion. Second was a 6-yard run. He threw again on the third play to running back Dave Lowry who ran 37 yards for a touchdown.

In L.A., I called every scrap yard and surplus place that was listed, about 50 or 60 places, and only at one of them did the owner get intrigued and let me go around the yard to find stuff. Because the insurance regulations are such that you can't go into the places anymore.

A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may not be running the entire race. A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the "ninety-five yard dash." That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the last five yards makes the first ninety-five pointless. In fact, serious runners thing of it as a 110 yard dash so that no one will best them in the last few yards. You've got to think beyond the whole.

So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has a ten-yard head start. In the time it takes you to run that ten yards, the tortoise has moved one yard. And then in the time it takes you to make up that distance, the tortoise goes a bit farther, and so on forever. You are faster than the tortoise but you can never catch him; you can only decrease his lead.

My own back yard, and my mom and dad's back yard, is where I learned about tomatoes and weeds and daily maintenance.

Give the enemy an inch, he'll take a yard.

All the time, I'm afraid the thing that happened that made it all right for my mother to kill my sister could happen again. I don't know what it is, I don't know who it is, but maybe there is something else terrible enough to make her do it again. I need to know what that thing might be, but I don't want to. Whatever it is, it comes from outside this house, outside the yard, and it can come right on in the yard if it wants to. So I never leave this house and I watch over the yard, so it can't happen again and my mother won't have to kill me too.

My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Each dog barks in his own yard!

I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond.

I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.

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

You can be anything else, but if you're the 100-yard dash winner, you're the fastest guy, and that's it.

An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

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

They did the Monster Mash, it was a grave yard smash.

Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.

I go out and walk around the yard. Sometimes I'll cut grass.

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

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.

Being around a couple good tight ends in my history, both in Philadelphia and Carolina, namely in Chad Lewis and then in Greg Olsen, you see how that helps a young quarterback whether he becomes a security blanket, he can turn a five-yard completion into a 15-yard gain.

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.

When I was growing up, we had a widow living next door to us. So the habit was that if we went to the grocery store, we called her first. If we cut our yard, we cut her yard, no questions asked.

Whether the ball is on the 99-yard line or the 1-yard line, I'm going to find a way to get into the end zone.

I've hurt you. I've loved you. I've mowed the front yard.

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.

Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.

My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.

I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.

Let nature be in your yard.

Give the enemy an inch, hell take a yard.

There's a freeway running through the yard.

WWE is my domain, my yard.

Life by the yard is hard; by the inch it's a cinch. Decisions Determine Destiny.

I'm pretty confusing. But I do have an oil rig in my back yard.

Teddy has lost that yard of pace he never had.

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.

Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch.

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

We all want to thank Emmitt for allowing us to enjoy every yard.

Buy whatever kids are selling on card tables in their front yard.

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

A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor.

I'm different to someone like Jamie Vardy, who is a lot quicker than me but if he loses a yard he loses a large part of his game - whereas I never had the yard in the first place.

I got this grave yard woman.

The Court Yard Hounds aren't a threat to the Dixie Chicks.

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

If you go 90 yards in a hundred-yard race, you come last. Usain Bolt slows down for the last half a yard, but for 99 yards, he is that far ahead that he can. In our business, you can't be far enough ahead. It is such a competitive marketplace.

Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children?

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

I like to play paintball in my back yard.

I hit a one-yard draw in there

The squirrel in my yard really knows his way around the neighborhood.

Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

I was always impressed by how much my dad went out in the yard and played with me and my siblings when we were kids. I'm sure he was tired coming back from work, since he traveled a lot. But he always took time out of his day to go out in the yard.

I feel like I'm kind of lazy, but I keep the yard looking good.

I've just been training and working on my speed. I want to be faster, Everyone knows that the more speed you have the more of a threat you can be in the NFL. For me I have been working on my speed and being more explosive. Everyone knows I can get the 10- or 15-yard runs, but I want to have the 60- and 70-yard runs.

That was only a yard away from being an inch-perfect pass.