School Yard Quotes

#1. Jules and I were tiny people. We were delicate. We were almost destroyed. We were vulnerable. Like nerds in a school yard of bullies, we could have traded our stamps and cards of extinct animals. That's the kind of people we would be if our situation were different.

Heather O'Neill

#2. I felt brave all of a sudden. Yeah, maybe it was just a stupid and immature school yard fight. Or maybe it was the most important moment of my life. Maybe I was telling the world that I was no longer a human target.

Sherman Alexie

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

Neil Young

#4. I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

Steven Chu

#5. When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.

Eoin Colfer

#6. Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.

Lincoln Peirce

#7. What did it sound like ... having someone call your name across a crowded school yard? How did it feel to turn to the sound of your name, to see some smiling face or waving hand and know it was for you and you alone?
- Staggerlee

Jacqueline Woodson

#8. Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

Alan Shepard

#9. Well I'm on my way
I don't know where I'm going
I'm on my way I'm taking my time
But I don't know where

Paul Simon

#10. I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

Don Cheadle

#11. Artemis is freedom - wild, untrammelled, aloof from all entanglements. She is a huntress, a dancer, the goddess of nature and wildness, a virgin physically and, even more important, a virgin psychologically, inviolable, belonging to no one, defined by no relationship, confined by no bond.

Arianna Huffington

#12. The Blessed will see their friends and relations among the damned as often as they like but without the least of compassion.

Gerhard

#13. I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me.

Brandi Chastain

#14. I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#15. Growing up knowing that I wanted to be a sportscaster and knowing that the best school in the country was right in my back yard, I certainly knew all there was to know about Marty Glickman and about people like Bob Costas and Marv Albert and all of the other greats that have passed through there.

Beth Mowins

#16. A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.

Vance Havner

#17. When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake.

Francine Mathews

#18. Julia taught me what it takes to find your way in the world. It's not what I thought it was. I thought it wa all about-I don't know, confidence or will or luck. Those are all some good things to have, no question. But there's something else, somethng that these things grow out of. It's joy.

Julie Powell

#19. I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.

Felicia Day

#20. One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

Valerie June

#21. If I want to put a Christmas tree in my yard, or three crosses for the crucifixion story, that's fine. But if I try to use public property or a public school as a way to impress my religion on other people, I think that violates the constitution.

John Shelby Spong

#22. the yard. When Ben knocked on Griffin's door the next morning on his way to school, he was surprised when the door was answered by Mrs.

Gordon Korman

#23. The Book of the Heart provides a fresh perspective on the influence of the book as artifact on our language and culture. Reading this book broadens our appreciation of the relationship between things and ideas.

Henry Petroski

#24. I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someone's yard on the way home from school, I would go to the end of the block and turn.

Amy Sedaris

#25. My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.

Mickey Mantle

#26. Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be of benefit. The bodhisattva-warrior, therefore, makes a vow to wake up not just for himself but for the welfare of all beings.

Pema Chodron

#27. 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.

Rick Astley

#28. You made me feel alive again.

Julie Kagawa

#29. I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.

Breaux Greer