Fence Quotes

395 quotes by 332 authors

The heart of it all is mystery, and science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery--a ragged barbed-wire fence through which mystery… — Rick Bass
I first became fascinated with the Sears catalogue because all the people in its pages were perfect. Nearly everybody I knew had something missing, a… — Harry Crews
Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences. — Dennis Lehane
Within my heart a garden grows, wild with violets and fragrant rose. bright daffodils line the narrow path, my footsteps silent as i pass. sweet… — Robin Jones Gunn
The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world. — Rainer Maria Rilke
I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of… — Jodi Picoult
He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell… — Robert Frost
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered. — Robert Fulghum
Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as… — Benjamin Carson
I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds, gates, guards, all… — Helene Hanff
. . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other… — John Boyne
Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving… — Jerry Spinelli
Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. — Karen Marie Moning
They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out… — Lauren Oliver
Oh, hey. This looks promising. " We came to a stop before a high, barbwire fence with an enormous PRIVATE PROPERTY--NO UNAUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ALLOWED sign… — Richelle Mead
The sun is not ridiculous, quite the contrary. On everything I like, on the rust of the construction girders, on the rotten boards of the… — Jean-Paul Sartre
One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this barbed wire fence… — Jennifer Armintrout
What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

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