#yard

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#graveyards #i #personally #pick

At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#dispute #family #got #grandfather #honor

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#human #human rights #interests #national #national interests

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#every #guide #individual #know #language

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. ↗

— Truman Capote

#book #child #finishing #just #like

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#ears #hundred #lived #night #our

The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#away #enemy #enough #fire #forward

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. ↗

— E. Joseph Cossman

#comes #else #extra #fortune #going

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

— Phyllis Diller

#buried #i #ironing #lot #yard

I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

#backyard #deck #go #grew #hiking