Fence Quotes
395 quotes by 344 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
— Maya Angelou
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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
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Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.
— Laozi
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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
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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
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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
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He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.
— David Lloyd George
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
— Tom Waits
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
— Robert Herrick
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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
Who Wrote These Fence Quotes
344 authors contributed a total of 395 Fence Quotes, led by these top contributors: