Top 100 A Fence Quotes
#1. No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It's better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings.
Kelly Link
#2. Simply building a fence between a child and temptation is not the same things as preparing him to face life.
Barbara R. Duguid
#3. Life is full of risks. But if you try to build a fence around all your fears, you'll shut out joy too.
Dorothy Love
#4. But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.
Wim Wenders
#5. How does someone keep a chicken inside a fence? I had closed my eyes at that one, picturing Cocky running off into the cotton fields, and me, standing at the edge of the fence, hollering the rooster's name like a crazy woman.
Alessandra Torre
#6. The best way to catch a horse is to build a fence around it.
Emmylou Harris
#7. Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?
Jesse Helms
#8. Shiny like new zinc holding up a roof or a fence right beside old zinc, the material itself a living history of when last the politician did the ghetto a favor.
Marlon James
#10. Insomnia
I cannot get to sleep tonight.
I toss and turn and flop.
I try to count some fluffy sheep
while o'er a fence they hop.
I try to think of pleasant dreams
of places really cool.
I don't know why I cannot sleep -
I slept just fine at school.
Kathy Kenney-Marshall
#11. Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.
Richard Hammond
#12. The sky," he wrote on his slate, "is my living room. The woods are my parlor. The lonely lake is my bath. I can't remain behind a fence all my life.
E.B. White
#13. I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.
Byron Dorgan
#14. There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.
Queen Mary
#15. Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced; it also imprisons the protected.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#16. He cracked his crooked smile that made all women swoon except the ones who wanted to slap him. Faye was a fence-sitter on the subject.
Sarah Scheele
#17. When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
Carl Hiaasen
#18. She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
Elizabeth Taylor
#19. Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border.
Gary Johnson
#20. I can't climb a fence in a dress!" "Yes you can. Probably." Shanti
K.F. Breene
#21. My anxiety house a house and a fence and a deer in the yard. A zip code. A plague of starlings.
Kristy Bowen
#22. I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
Lacey Chabert
#23. I'm a tomboy at the end of the day, so anything that causes me to have to run around, fight people, roll in the dirt, hop a fence - I'm all for it. So I really would love to do an action film.
Emayatzy Corinealdi
#24. It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot plow quite up to the rails or wall which he himself has placed, and hence it often becomes a hedgerow and sometimes a coppice.
Henry David Thoreau
#25. 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 and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.
Rick Perry
#26. You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis, all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence
Irene Gut Opdyke
#27. Thought of the way a tree will keep on growing after a fence is wired around its trunk. The unbelievable force of that expansion. And I let her go.
Barbara Kingsolver
#29. 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 said 'Fence,' so I hit the fence and bounced into the van
Pete Wentz
#30. In this case we're building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure.
Bruce Nauman
#31. Decision-making when things show up instead of when they blow up is actually a habit that can be developed and enhanced. The trick is to get used the clean feeling of having decided, instead of sitting on a fence.
David Allen
#32. I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'
Aretha Franklin
#33. He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce.
Fintan O'Toole
#35. The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a pulp. Program content is seen increasingly as a mere backdrop on which ads are posted like billboards on a fence.
Tom Shales
#36. It means eating your words, this thing of refusing to be a fence-sitter, but I'd rather eat my words than get calluses from sitting.
No one who has not experienced the condescension of a buyer toward an ordinary salesgirl can have any conception of its withering effect.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#37. Like the pickets in a fence outside a
Anonymous
#38. Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its endless row of years; and we flow past like Gyoll, on our way to a sea from which we shall return only as rain.
Gene Wolfe
#39. Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye.
What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high,
And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher,
Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.
William Butler Yeats
#40. I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.
Phil Donahue
#41. My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
Quincy Jones
#42. When in a foreign country, he thought, you are behind a fence, or in a cell - everything is going on around you but you are not quite part of it. You open your mouth, and you sound like a child; you know that you are someone else, but you cannot explain it.
Penelope Lively
#43. Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror.
Tzachi Hanegbi
#44. A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
Tom Waits
#45. A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
H.L. Mencken
#46. If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff.
Denis Parsons Burkitt
#47. Romance isn't about proving to someone you love them with flowers and greeting cards and chocolate. Or even a lock on a fence. It's a daily reminder. It's saying, I choose you. Today and every day.
Kristen Proby
#48. I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another.
S.T. Joshi
#49. To give you an idea how bad the American economy is, Mexico is now calling for a fence along the border. Stay on your side!
Jay Leno
#51. Walter had planned to drive to New York where he knew a fence and then to Canada to have the operation the doctor said he needed.
Eric Beetner
#52. There's capital controls and there's people control. So every time you think of a fence keeping all those bad people out, think about those fences maybe being used against us, keeping us in.
Ron Paul
#53. Wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig tree. It
Sylvia Plath
#54. Basically, if you put a fence around New York City, you'd have the world's biggest nontraveling circus.
James Patterson
#55. And I was glad she had the camera as a fence to protect herself, an excuse to be invisible. Cameras are a lifesaver for the very shy people who have nowhere else to hide.
Pat Conroy
#56. I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.
Harry S. Truman
#57. The truth is that whenever a fence is removed, it's wise to ask why it was put there in the first place.
Ravi Zacharias
#58. President Obama and his family are spending the holidays in Hawaii, and while they're gone, they got a fence jumper to house sit. Tomorrow, he will be in Hawaii playing golf with Raul Castro and the Pope.
David Letterman
#60. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Robert Frost
#61. An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth - without a fence around it.
William Wrigley Jr.
#62. The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.
Akiva Ben Joseph
#63. I write narrative nonfiction, creating lively scenes through action and the use of quotes from firsthand accounts, all based on rigorous research. If I say a character leaned against a fence on a windy day, than I have at least two sources to back up these details.
Jim Murphy
#64. Words slip into a language the way white-green vines slide between slats in a fence.
Tim Seibles
#65. Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.
Bum Phillips
#66. I think all these great comforts that come from the human condition of trying to make things easier on ourselves also have these pitfalls, where things become so easy that we forget how enjoyable building a fence can be.
Nick Offerman
#67. What has you roaring like a bull with his prick hung in a fence?
Susan Scott
#68. I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.
Bob Hawke
#69. So when we met that first night," I said, "by the fence, you thought I was friendly?" "I didn't think you weren't," he said. "I wasn't very nice to you." "You were jumping a fence. I didn't take it personally.
Sarah Dessen
#70. But the old Lena is dead too.
I buried her.
I left her beyond a fence, behind a wall of smoke and flame.
Lauren Oliver
#71. Whether it's death or life or a fence, you see things how you choose to see them.
Laura Lee Gulledge
#72. They'll never build a fence high enough or a wall thick enough to keep freedom out.
Marty Rubin
#73. He turned on to the track and wondered why no birds were singing. The only sound he could hear was the buzz and rattle of a drill, which he assumed to be the farmer doing something to a fence. It was, in fact, a woodpecker whose presence would have thrilled him had he known what it was.
Ruth Rendell
#74. I'd like to have a nice home set up, with a couple of dogs, and a fence, white picket fence.
Martin Starr
#75. If you build a car, you can only sell it once. If you paint a fence, you only get paid for it once. If you create a piece of software that's essentially free to reproduce, you can keep getting paid over and over perpetually.
Markus Persson
#76. The main thing to tell a person when you explain how to become righteous is to announce to him for free grace of God, concealing nothing, saying none other than what God says in the Gospel. Build a fence around Mount Sinai, but not around Golgotha ,because at Golgotha all God's wrath was appeased.
C.F.W. Walther
#77. If there is a fence and you don't know its purpose, don't just assume there isn't one and tear it down. Find out what the fence is intended to accomplish. You might see it needs to stay.
Jerry Vines
#78. I concentrate on the simple act of putting one foot in front of the other and continue moving forward even as part of me is left behind, beyond a fence I cannot breach.
Amy Engel
#79. It's plain that a fence is of no consequence, If the ambulance works in the valley.
Joseph Malins
#80. 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 it's a thing I need.
William Faulkner
#81. You will see. There are boundaries - there always are. But you can find your place within them. Learn how to live within a fence but let your spirit soar.
Roseanna M. White
#82. 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 a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.
Georges Bataille
#83. Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
Jacky Ickx
#84. A fence can protect you from cows but not from tanks! In life, there is no complete shield.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#85. A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run.
Robert Jordan
#86. Use your finger to trace the scar upon my chest- I lied - it wasn't a knife wound, but a scrape from a nail sliding under a fence to see you ...
John Geddes
#87. Too many people want to have one foot in the world and one foot in the kingdom of God, and it is like straddling a fence. You are not happy either way. Declare yourself for Christ.
Billy Graham
#88. Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
Alex Haley
#89. Build a fence around the South and you'd have one big madhouse.
Florence King
#90. I felt sorry when I came to the last page. I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print the way you crawl through a fence.
Sylvia Plath
#94. Life is not a harvest. Just because you have an apple doesn't mean you have an orchard. You have an apple. Put a fence around it. Once you have put a fence around everything you value, then you have the total circle of your heart.
Sheila Heti
#95. I grew up in Arizona. I love it. I'm a part of the desert. I feel like, really, I'm from the Sonoran Desert, which is - extends to both sides of the border. I'm really from that part of Mexico, also. And I hate that there's a fence, you know, running through it.
Linda Ronstadt
#96. The intellect has a way of building a fence around the heart, cutting us off from what we know to be true in a way that is hard to prove according to the categories in which proof matters.
Rob Bell
#97. If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.
Mark Twain
#98. When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or you're not over. It's much the same when you are doing a tricky thing with a pen. There are times when I'm writing very, very fast.
Patrick O'Brian
#99. I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.
Sylvia Plath
#100. It is always a mistake to curse back openly at those who are stronger than you unless there is a fence between.
Margaret Atwood
