Fence Quotes

395 quotes by 332 authors

I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I… — Colm Toibin
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with… — Robert Fulghum
And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its… — Donald Miller
There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event… — William Faulkner
She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a… — Nicole Krauss
We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in… — Georges Bataille
The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and then it swings… — Naomi Novik
At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this strange compartmentalization that… — Bill Bryson
It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and… — C.S. Lewis
he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at… — Sara Teasdale
You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Good fences make good neighbors. — Robert Frost
We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Natureâ€™s inexhaustible sources of energy--sun, wind… — Thomas A. Edison
Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and… — SaigyÅ
Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house. — Saddam Hussein
Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome,… — Douglas Adams
It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we… — Chinua Achebe
We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside — Richard Paul Evans
There was a fence and there was this other van- So I go, 'Fence or van? Cause I'm crashing into one of them,' and I… — Pete Wentz

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