Fence Quotes

395 quotes by 344 authors

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's… — Tom Brady
They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings… — Sitting Bull
My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on a big story… — Graydon Carter
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm,… — Johnny Cash
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. — Maya Angelou
I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence… — Maya Angelou
Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness. — Laozi
Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of Mexico. I did not go… — Ronald Reagan
In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to… — Ken Harrelson
Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact... These young people… — Richard M. Nixon
He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul. — David Lloyd George
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post. — Tom Waits
Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking,… — Mark Helprin
To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in. — Mark Van Doren
There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well… — Richard Llewellyn
Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead… — Warren W. Wiersbe
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely… — H. L. Mencken
Heaven and hell are not very distant, they are neighbors; only a small fence divides them. You can jump that fence, even without a gate.… — Rajneesh
Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence. — Robert Herrick
Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a… — Benjamin Carson

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