#yards

Now undoubtedly, we face some very British challenges when it comes to infrastructure. We rightly cherish our back yards and green spaces, and we'll defend them passionately when projects are announced. We live in a democracy, and we like to debate these things, often for many years. ↗

— Evan Davis

#back #british #challenges #cherish #comes

I was in the back part of the bunker, so I had to carry the whole bunker. It was probably 20 yards. ↗

— Trent Dilfer

#bunker #carry #had #i #part

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#around #future #goes #know #nothing

I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you. ↗

— Esther Williams

#could #everything #first #get #had

That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done. ↗

— Robert Hamer

#done #else #everything #i #picture

At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones. ↗

— Marcus Allen

#candidate #gain #ones #over #people

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