Fence famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
-- A. E. Housman -
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
-- Alexander Herzen -
You must have been going very fast." "I was, until I hit the fence.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
-- Arthur Baer -
I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.
-- Bob Hawke -
If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House?
-- Charles Krauthammer -
A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it.
-- Dick Francis -
The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority.
-- Felix Frankfurter -
If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors.
-- Felix Frankfurter -
I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.
-- Harry S. Truman -
The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence
-- Henry A. Kissinger -
Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?
-- Jesse Helms -
If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence.
-- Julie Krone -
How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.
-- Katherine Mansfield -
And I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.
-- Laini Taylor -
I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.
-- Marlon Wayans -
Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.
-- Morgan Freeman -
When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
-- Morrie Schwartz -
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
-- Quincy Jones -
Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.
-- Richard Engel -
The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built.
-- Robert Ardrey -
Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house.
-- Saddam Hussein -
Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.
-- Sam Shepard -
In a world without fences, who needs Gates?
-- Scott McNealy -
I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.
-- Shemar Moore -
Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.
-- Shonda Rhimes -
Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.
-- Texas Bix Bender -
The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a pulp. Program content is seen increasingly as a mere backdrop on which ads are posted like billboards on a fence.
-- Tom Shales -
Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror.
-- Tzachi Hanegbi -
There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.
-- Mary of Teck -
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
-- Unknown -
If the fence is strong enough I'll sit on it.
-- Cyril Smith -
He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.
-- Roger Clemens -
I just swung for the fence. That's my whole philosophy in life.
-- Ronnie Van Zant -
We see every day that our very laws have both sides of the fence.
-- Jerry Jones -
It's plain that a fence is of no consequence, If the ambulance works in the valley.
-- Joseph Malins -
Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.
-- Yanis Varoufakis
