Fence Quotes · Page 4

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

— Alex Haley

Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.

— Robert Herrick

“Staying on the fence is safe ... until someone shoots you off!”

— Steven Charles

Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror.

— Tzachi Hanegbi

Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.

— Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

“There was a faded ege sign and a No Trespassing warning on the fence”

— Anonymous

My wife is a flower of the garden and I am her fence around it.

— Vikrant Parsai

Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.

— Bum Phillips

Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even…

— Jay Griffiths

An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth…

— William Wrigley, Jr

It was hard, that confrontation scene [in "Fences"], that was a hard one. I felt like it was relentless, I never felt…

— Viola Davis

You'll see some great performances [in Fences]. And I'm not just saying that because I directed it either! You'll see!

— Denzel Washington

Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.

— Jimmy Carter

Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision.

— Denzel Washington

People have become inappropriate. People have pushed too far. People have climbed one too many fences. I'm just tired of it.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around…

— Nicole Krauss

We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources…

— Anonymous

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left…

— Mark Twain

Indifference to love or hate is sitting on the fence between the two, refusing to engage either one of them. Indifference, if…

— Mark R. Woodward

I was probably about 22 years old when I recommitted myself to get off the fence and go all in and get…

— Mike Fisher

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead…

— Frank Herbert

This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30;…

— Michael Phelps

All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane…

— Viktor Orban

Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot…

— William Butler Yeats

Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house…

— Marian Wright Edelman

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the…

— Sara Teasdale

I was fortunately able to avoid getting into any trouble with police. There was - I remember I was 12, and I…

— Mahershala Ali

While love is common, true love is rare, and I believe that few people are fortunate enough to experience it. The roads…

— David Buss

Amid the cheering of the crowds, he hardly heard his master's voice, but he saw the familiar head and shoulders, and the…

— Ernest Thompson Seton

Dare I speak ,to oppressed and opressor in the same voice? Dare I speak to you in a language that will move…

— Bell Hooks

Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact...…

— Richard M. Nixon

The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied…

— John Adams

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

— Ian Frazier

[Movie "Fences"] is more than holds up today. We have had a tremendous response at the screenings.

— Denzel Washington

It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.

— Maggie Stiefvater

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

— Sting

If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.

— William L. McKnight

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

— Silvan Shalom

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House?

— Charles Krauthammer

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

— Lee Ann Womack