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Do You Know Any Yard Quotes
Here are some usable yard quotes that are thought provoking.

“Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.” – W. C. Fields quotes (American Comic and Actor, 1880-1946)

“Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.” (American short-story Writer, Novelist and Playwright, 1924-1984)

“He who is unable to dance says that the yard is stony” African Proverb quotes

“Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.” Robert Frost quotes (American poet, 1874-1963)

“Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg.” Hans Christian Andersen quotes (Danish Author whose fairy tales are famous throughout the world, 1805-1875)

“If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard” Jesse Owens quotes (American Athlete, 4 time Gold Medalist in Track and Field at the 1936 Olympic Games, 1913-1980)

“Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard” Paul McCartney quotes (English Musician and Singer and songwriter, b.1942)

“They may call it a home page, but it’s more like the gnome in somebody’s front yard than the home itself.” Tim Berners-Lee quotes (British Physicist of the World Wide Web (WWW). b.1955)

“My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.” Mickey Mantle quotes (American Baseball Player, 1931-1995)

“If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you’ve got in the house.” Mike Harding quotes

“I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard” Phyllis Diller quotes (American comedienne and actress, born 1917)

“I don’t visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won’t wait in the yard while I run

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