Fence Quotes
395 quotes by 332 authors
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There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up…
— Rick Perry
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When things go badly, individuals look for scapegoats. I just do not believe that barbed-wire fences or guns on our border will solve any of…
— Ron Paul
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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; if I continue…
— Michael Phelps
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The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth…
— Harold Prince
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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee…
— Will Rogers
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It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making…
— Jim Rohn
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The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies…
— Ray Romano
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.
— Gary Ross
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Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and…
— Gary Ross
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
— Carl Sandburg
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As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the…
— Charles Schumer
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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
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The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a pulp. Program content…
— Tom Shales
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We do not build new Jewish communities in Samaria, Judea and Gaza. The United States has never accepted our building of communities or of the…
— Ariel Sharon
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Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.
— Zadie Smith
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Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
— Kevin Spacey
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My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we…
— Steven Tyler
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go.…
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard…
— James Wolcott
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All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long…
— Thomas Wolfe
Who Wrote These Fence Quotes
332 authors contributed a total of 395 Fence Quotes, led by these top contributors: