Fences Quotes

109 quotes by 93 authors

There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not… — Willa Cather
I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing… — Sammy Sosa
When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all… — Garrison Keillor
Creeds are definitions of what it means to be a Christian. They are fences that, albeit imperfectly, seek to separate sheep from goats. — R. C. Sproul, Jr.
How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you â€” you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the… — Katherine Mansfield
Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds… — James Russell Lowell
That thought process that somehow other people have to be worse off in order for you to be better off does not work. People get… — Marco Rubio
Love means setting aside walls, fences, and unlocking doors and saying 'Yes.' One can be in paradise by simply saying 'yes' to this moment. — Emanuel Swedenborg
The passion, the competitiveness, the swinging for the fences, it adds up. — Donny Deutsch
Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the… — Luther Burbank
The good people of Dakota offered to give Calvin Coolidge a farm if he would live on it. I wouldn't advise you to give those… — Will Rogers
I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must smile at his… — Henry David Thoreau
If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors. — Felix Frankfurter
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to… — Robert Green Ingersoll
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
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
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
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
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

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