Quotes About Front Yards

#1. All those postage-stamp front yards we used to have were reminders that we like clear spaces to see predators coming.

Daniel H. Wilson

#2. Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. The results of family disintegration are seen all around us. Runaways. Child abuse. Abortions. It is dirty laundry - once hung in the nation's backyard, but now hung shamelessly in front yards - flaunted in headlines and glamorized on television and in films.

Billy Graham

#4. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.

Jeremiah Wright

#5. But all organic matter must have cell structure," Sara said. "Cell structure is virtually a definition of organic matter, a requisite of all living tissue, plant or animal.

Dean Koontz

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#7. When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering.

Joseph Heller

#8. We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man.

Erich Maria Remarque

#9. Every minute we waste in frustration over a task that seems overwhelming is a minute subtracted from the time we've allotted to enjoy life.

Marc Mancini

#10. My dad loved to 'arrange things' to take us kids to that scared the crap out of us on Halloween. He'd take us to the old 'Hermit's House' at the edge of town. He'd park the car 100 yards down the street and say, 'Go back there and get something off the front porch!'

Bill Moseley

#11. January was like the freaking sun.

Fisher Amelie

#12. I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy.

Noel Gallagher

#13. Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Napoleon Hill

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

Matthew Dickman

#15. Money gives you the freedom to do with your time what you want to do with it

Richard Branson

#16. Once I had my son, I stopped shopping in stores because it's not an easy process to try on clothes - and I'm not an impulsive buyer. I need to do the dance in front of the mirror, the whole nine yards.

Solange Knowles

#17. It's what we do with the myths we grow up with that matters.

Ali Smith

#18. Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.

Ray Lewis

#19. I feel like there's no such thing as failure.

Thomas Jones

#20. The Japanese Prime Minister has apologized for Japan's part in World War II. However, he still hasn't mentioned anything about karaoke.

David Letterman

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

Lil' Wayne

#22. Even the piquant can forfeit popularity if tied to something intellectual.

Thomas Mann

#23. Together we made our way from the service entrances in back to the front, Jenks shedding clothes and handing them to me to stuff in my bag every few yards. It was terribly distracting, but I managed to avoid running into the Dumpsters and recycling bins.

Kim Harrison

#24. Pines and spruces can't be sheared like yew or hemlock, but they are stately in large landscapes, where their eventual size is a plus. (But they are a nightmare in small yards, where their eventual size is like having a brontosaurus nesting in the front yard.)

Cassandra Danz

#25. I think that this is what God must look like: an egg. The life of the moon may not be on the surface, but inside.

Margaret Atwood

#26. The kiss was brief, but when I pulled away, his expression made my day. He stared down at me, his eyes wide and the pupils slightly dilated. His lips were parted and that bolt in his tongue glittered. The tops of his cheekbones were flushed. He looked ... He looked gobsmacked.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#27. Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there's always some trouble - you have to poke holes in them, throw them out of a job, put a pie in the face.

Drew Carey

#28. There was no moon, but I could hear the surf a few yards in front of us. I spread my filthy cord coat on the sand for a pillow, then fell down and went to sleep.

Hunter S. Thompson

#29. Always the answer - yes! Let me die so -
Under some rosy-golden sunset, saying
A good thing, for a good cause! By the sword,
The point of honor - by the hand of one
Worthy to be my foeman, let me fall -
Steel in my heart, and laughter on my lips!

Edmond Rostand

#30. You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

Amy Lee