#yards

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

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

The graveyards are full of indispensable men. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#graveyards #indispensable #men

I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians. ↗

— Gary Larson

#considered #graveyards #i #music #musicians

Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick? ↗

— Sandra Lee

#box #flour #just #mix #nine

As long as I can stay north or south, I'm gaining yards. ↗