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)

    “Father calls me William, sister calls me Will,
    Mother calls me Willie, but the fellers call me Bill!”
    —Eugene Field (1850–1895)

    “The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence,—luxury, scepticism, weariness and superstition,—are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)