Yard Field Goal

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

    “For this your mother sweated in the cold,
    For this you bled upon the bitter tree:
    A yard of tinsel ribbon bought and sold;
    A paper wreath; a day at home for me.”
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    “She is as in a field a silken tent
    At midday when a sunny summer breeze
    Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent,”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “U.S. international and security policy ... has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call “the Fifth Freedom,” understood crudely but with a fair degree of accuracy as the freedom to rob, to exploit and to dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced.”
    —Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)