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Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard. -- John Bytheway
My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. -- Dave Van Ronk
I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns. -- John D. Long
I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns. -- John D. Long
We need to think less NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), and more SWIMBY (Something Wonderful In My Back Yard) -- Rob Hopkins
If you stand a Yard away from God Today, you will see your kids standing a Mile away from God Tomorrow. -- Santosh Thankachan
Bluebeard, who said to Scottland Yard, How do I know how many wives I've killed? I'm not an accountant! Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
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. -- Tom Hanks
On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
I just love family meetings. Very cozy, with the Christmas garlands round the fireplace and a nice pot of tea and a detective from Scotland Yard ready to arrest you. -- Rick Riordan
In response to a question concerning China's policy of compulsory abortion after the first child, Molly Yard responded, "I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world" -- Gary Bauer
Aside from doing publicity for this film [The Longest Yard], I have Auto Maniac coming on the History Channel and since I got married recently, we are going to get to that Honeymoon we had to put off. -- Bill Goldberg
All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me. -- Philip Gibbs
But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door during Prime Minister's question time. A spokesman at Scotland Yard said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. -- Ronnie Barker
I have to say I love Dempsey's Brew Pub & Restaurant. It's gorgeous with that Camden Yard brick surrounding it, and it just screams Baltimore. I love the Black and Orange Burger that is topped with fresh orange bell peppers, caramelized onions and sharp cheddar cheese. -- Johnathon Schaech
I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city. -- Michael Arad
I had a cookie business there, with my brother, when we were growing up, called the Chip Yard, and that became the inspiration for the banana stand. My father said that he wanted us to develop a work ethic, so we'd sit there selling cookies, all day. -- Mitchell Hurwitz
Something very worrying has been going on at Scotland Yard. We now know that in dealing with the phone-hacking affair at the 'News of the World,' they cut short their original inquiry; suppressed evidence; misled the public and the press; concealed information and broke the law. Why? -- Nick Davies
Let nature be in your yard. -- Greg Peterson
I got this grave yard woman. -- Bob Dylan
There's a freeway running through the yard. -- Tom Petty
I hit a one-yard draw in there -- Tiger Woods
Each dog barks in his own yard! -- Rudyard Kipling
Give the enemy an inch, hell take a yard. -- Monica Crowley
Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard. -- Ben Okri
Teddy has lost that yard of pace he never had. -- Tony Cascarino
An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint. -- Booker T. Washington
I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond. -- Jennifer Wyatt
They did the Monster Mash, it was a grave yard smash. -- Bobby Pickett
I've hurt you. I've loved you. I've mowed the front yard. -- Matthew Dickman
Undertaker, your yard is right in the middle of my world! -- Triple H
That was only a yard away from being an inch-perfect pass. -- Murdo MacLeod
I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard. -- Phyllis Diller
Buy whatever kids are selling on card tables in their front yard. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The squirrel in my yard really knows his way around the neighborhood. -- Bob Saget
I go out and walk around the yard. Sometimes I'll cut grass. -- Patty Loveless
Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard. -- Paul Simon
We all want to thank Emmitt for allowing us to enjoy every yard. -- Michael Irvin
Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch. -- Rick Pitino
Shoot you on the front porch and knock you to the back yard. -- Lil Wayne
One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent. -- Dan Brown
Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children? -- Caroline Paul
Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder. -- Jim Bishop
You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life. -- Paul Dietzel
I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn. -- Lettie Cowman
I'm pretty confusing. But I do have an oil rig in my back yard. -- Amber Heard
The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard. -- Neil Young
Remember when you picked me up like a frisbee and tossed me across you yard? -- Alyson Noel
Life by the yard is hard; by the inch it's a cinch. Decisions Determine Destiny. -- Thomas S. Monson
Itâ??s not difficult to coach to just get 10 players right on your 18-yard box. -- Brendan
My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end. -- Bill Kurtis
To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. -- Jesse Owens
Every Saturday we work in the yard, pick up the dog doo, hope that it's hard. -- Joe Walsh
Women: Can't live with them, can't bury them in the back yard without the neighbors seeing. -- Shaun Williamson
I approach football like a street-ball game, like I'm playing with the fellas in the yard. -- Simeon Rice
I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay. -- Sergei Lukyanenko
I just show up to the yard, work hard, and play as hard as I can. -- Dustin Pedroia
If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard- let him worry about cutting it. -- Fred Allen
OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. -- Ambrose Bierce
When the ball is on the one-yard line, never risk a fumble. Carry it over yourself. -- Robert Ringer
Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. -- Dave Eggers
I love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need. -- Patti Smith
My parents are apolitical - no bumper stickers, no yard signs. They don't talk about politics. -- Joel Burns
He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him. -- Bobby Robson
Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out. -- Janet Macunovich
Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got. -- Robert Benchley
I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy. -- Gary David Goldberg
Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but itâ??s valuable in a marathon. -- Adam Grant
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard. -- Paul McCartney
When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises. -- Eoin Colfer
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. -- Jesse Owens
I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep. -- Barbara Hepworth
There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
You might be a redneck if you have flowers planted in a bathroom appliance in your front yard. -- Jeff Foxworthy
In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard. -- Demetri Martin
I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard. -- Henry Ford
Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart. -- Marguerite Duras
I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in. -- Margaret Smith
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. -- Hans Christian Andersen
Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch. -- Gabrielle Giffords
You might be a redneck if your daughter's Barbie's Dream House has a clothesline in the front yard. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. -- Truman Capote
The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth. -- Avery Brundage
Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers. -- Lincoln Peirce
By late autumn the yard would grow thick with fallen leaves, causing the landlady to heave many deep sighs. -- Takashi Hiraide
When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac. -- Bruce Springsteen
When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard. -- Randy Houser
You might be a redneck if there are four or more cars up on blocks in the front yard. -- Jeff Foxworthy
If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house. -- Mike Harding
I wander around the house and write in bed, at the kitchen table, by the window, in the yard. -- Sarah Hall
I normally run the 40-yard dash in 4.9, but when a 280-pound guy is chasing me, I run it in 4.6. -- John Elway
If it's not televised, there's no way Americans will know about competitive badminton. All they know is the back-yard thing. -- Howard Bach
When it comes to your marriage, if the grass looks greener somewhere else, it's time to water your own yard! -- Craig Groeschel
You see airbrushed images of me, but I know the person who's walking barefoot, dodging dog poo in the yard. -- Carolyn Murphy
Ask a glass of water why it pities the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash. -- Terrance Hayes
I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard. -- M.M. Kaye
It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg! -- Hans Christian Andersen
With my dad passing away, he's always watching me-a big smile on his face, watching every snap on the 50-yard line. -- Russell Wilson
Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive. -- W. C. Fields
A cat likes to hear you calling him. He sits in a bush a yard from your shoes - and listens. -- Pam Brown
Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard. -- Mason Cooley
I've always wanted children... not of my own, but for yard work and reaching into tight places to get things I've dropped. -- Dov Davidoff
In life or in football, touchdowns rarely take place in seventy yard increments. Usually it's three yards and a cloud of dust. -- Rush Limbaugh
The stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yard! America's chickens are coming home to roost! -- Jeremiah Wright
For the most part, I hang out in my back yard with my dog, but there's no paparazzi trying to check that out. -- Pete Wentz
Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now. -- David Horsey
You may be a redneck if . . . you think you are an entrepreneur because of the "Dirt for Sale" sign in the front yard. -- Jeff Foxworthy
I'm a small-town kid who grew up with a cornfield in the back yard and dreaming of serving my country in public office. -- Mike Pence
Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings. -- J. K. Rowling
I would sacrifice 1,000 yards rushing to win a Super Bowl. But I want to be the first back to have back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons. -- Adrian Peterson
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell. -- Charles Studd
If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage. -- Sylvia Earle
When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard. -- John W. Gardner
Watch the indolent butterfly playing on the tall flower in the yard and think about the sun going down. It always does you know. -- Rod McKuen
I passed out in our front yard. But honey, don't turn out the light, cause I think I'm in the mood for love tonight. -- Robert Earl Keen
He's bad, bad Leroy Brown, baddest dude in the whole damn town, badder than old King Kong, and meaner than a junk yard dog. -- Jim Croce
I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who wear large jewelry. -- Libba Bray
To those who have not yet learned the secret of true happiness, begin now to study the little things in your own door yard. -- George Washington Carver
I've never had a yard sale, ever, in my life. I don't know if I ever thought about stuff I would get rid of. -- Will Ferrell
There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you. -- Paul J. Meyer

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