Yard Field Goal

Famous quotes containing the words yard, field and/or goal:

    “He slipped his hand and ran away!
    He hadn’t gone a yard when—Bang!
    With open jaws, a lion sprang,
    And hungrily began to eat
    The boy: beginning at his feet.”
    —Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)

    “Something told the wild geese
    It was time to go.
    Though the fields lay golden
    Something whispered—”Snow.””
    —Rachel Lyman Field (1894–1942)

    “Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework—an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self- sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.”
    —Betty Friedan (b. 1921)