Famous quotes containing the words yard, field and/or goal:
“Look, were all the same; a man is a fourteen-room housein the bedroom hes asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room hes rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library hes paying his taxes, in the yard hes raising tomatoes, and in the cellar hes making a bomb to blow it all up.”
—Arthur Miller (b. 1915)
“Love to chawnk green apples an go swimmin in the
lake.
Hate to take the castor-ile they give for belly-ache!
Most all the time, the whole year round, there aint no flies on
me,
But jest fore Christmas Im as good as I kin be!”
—Eugene Field (18501895)
“From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.”
—Emile Durkheim (18581917)