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Quotes About Barnyard

Gentry crept out. There, stuck in the slime a few feet away, was a huge unexploded bomb. It was about the size of a household refrigerator, shaped like a cigar, with its tail fins sticking up. A large pig slowly waddled across the barnyard and began licking it. On
~ Walter Lord
For 'Barnyard,' I did the voice of a 'chick,' which was really a blast because I had to manipulate my voice to another pitch.
~ Paul Butcher
I had weird dreams full of barnyard animals. Most of them wanted to kill me. The rest wanted food.
~ Rick Riordan
My interests are varied. They include natural history, lady detectives, and good hygiene," I said with a significant lift of the brows towards his feet. "What in seven hells does that mean?" he demanded. "It means that if you come to bed smelling like something from a barnyard again, I will scrub you myself with rose soap and a firm hand," I threatened.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Craw didn't just grunt - he made sounds like barnyard animals going to bed at night. The more frustrated and/or inarticulate he felt, the bigger the animal. This particular grunt sounded like a constipated cow.
~ Amy Lane
Oh, Lord!" I muttered, because I knew that even though I'd tried hard not to get Lizzie started, I'd already done it. Already walked across a barnyard inside of myself and gone right along and stepped in something! "You dreamed about Jesus?" Lizzie repeated.
~ Augusta Trobaugh
The idioms also revealed that Chinese shared a barnyard bawdiness with American English. My favorite was "taking off your pants to fart"—wasted effort.
~ John Pomfret
She ignores me, so I cup my hands over my mouth and do something I haven't done in years— barnyard sounds.
~ Simone Elkeles
Any doubt of the Father's love disappeared the night God was wrapped in barnyard towels so the hay wouldn't scratch his back.
~ Max Lucado
I didn't really expect her to accept, not with her being a humanoid and me a barnyard.
~ Gary K. Wolf
Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Black-and-white chickens stagger around Colonial Dunsboros, chickens with their heads flattened. Here are chickens with no wings or only one leg. There are chickens with no legs, swimming with just their ragged wings through the barnyard mud. Blind chickens without eyes. Without beaks. Born that way. Defective. Born with their little chicken brains already scrambled. There's an invisible line between science and sadism, but here it's made visible.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Similarly, hippos, as four ton vegetarians, would be great barnyard animals if they weren't so dangerous. They kill more people each year than do any other African mammals, including even lions.
~ Jared Diamond
There are any number of choice terms I could apply to you, several of them involving the barnyard. But since most of them would be an insult to the animals living there, I shall refrain from saying them aloud.
~ Unknown
For our anniversary, my wife and I went to see Godzilla, and then we ate at Barnyard Venice, and it was like, 'We are crazy! The Kardashians have to keep up with us!'
~ Bill Hader
You should a got a wife," said Joad. "Preacher an' his wife stayed at our place one time. Jehovites they was. Slep' upstairs. Held meetin's in our barnyard. Us kids would listen. That preacher's missus took a god-awful poundin' after ever' night meetin'.
~ John Steinbeck
She ignores me, so I cup my hands over my mouth and do something I haven't done in years— barnyard sounds.
~ Simone Elkeles, Chain Reaction