Picket Quotes

45 quotes by 39 authors

History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if… — Howard Zinn
You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights… — Paul Robeson
After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go,… — Joe Meno
Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my… — Lindsey Vonn
All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro,… — Ethel Lynn Beers
I'm not white-picket-fence perfect. — Heidi Klum
Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do. — Amy Dickinson
I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon. — Matt Dillon
If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs… — Ed Koch
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did… — Imelda Marcos
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
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
I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part of a, like,… — Joss Whedon
I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs.… — Rudyard Kipling
All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life,… — Anne Sexton
I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire. — Ilona Andrews
Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences. — Dennis Lehane
Iâ€™d given up on the white picket fence after Kisten had diedâ€”finding out my kids would be demons was the nail in the coffin. — Kim Harrison
Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines. — Cesar Chavez
My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in a white picket… — Michael Franti

Who Wrote These Picket Quotes

39 authors contributed a total of 45 Picket Quotes, led by these top contributors: