Yard Field Goals

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

    “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)

    “Last night I watched my brothers play,
    The gentle and the reckless one,
    In a field two yards away.
    For half a century they were gone
    Beyond the other side of care
    To be among the peaceful dead.”
    —Edwin Muir (1887–1959)

    “Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals renders the goals themselves despicable.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)