Passing Yard Games

Famous quotes containing the words passing, yard and/or games:

“The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“I’ve stayed in the front yard all my life.
I want a peek at the back
Where it’s rough and untended and hungry weed grows.
A girl gets sick of a rose.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)