Top 100 Fence Quotes
#1. Regaring Politics: You've got your cats on one side and your dogs on the other; someone has to walk the fence and feed the animals. - Kinky Friedman
Ray Palla
#2. Its not greener on the other side of the fence, its just a different shade of brown over there. Be happy with who you are and where you are in life.
D. Alyce Domain
#3. I didn't want to do my mathematics homework back home. Or mend the fence or mind the chickens. But I did it anyway. Just because a person doesn't want to do a thing doesn't mean they ought to shirk.
Catherynne M Valente
#4. The acting director of the Secret Service, Joseph Clancy, said they may make the fence around the White House taller because of the recent security failures. When asked if he had any other ideas, he said, 'Uh, make the sidewalk lower?'
Jimmy Fallon
#5. The house had been torn down. Nothing is left but the old white fence. There used to be privet bushes everywhere. "The smell of privet is the smell of summer for me," I say to Catherine.
"Yes, Mom." she says, "I know, Your memories are my memories now.
Abigail Thomas
#6. Pedestrian's rights - because we live in California, I've got to address this issue. I don't know where on the fence I am about that. I suppose if I'm walking, I'm all for it, but if I'm driving, that's a whole other can of worms.
Janeane Garofalo
#7. Flowers are fragile and ephemeral ... Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight ... and a spindly fence has no power against a strong wind. - Haibara Ai
Gosho Aoyama
#8. The old lady whirled round, and snatched her skirts out of danger. The lad fled on the instant, scrambled up the high board-fence, and disappeared over it.
Mark Twain
#9. 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
#10. It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.
Maggie Stiefvater
#11. Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.
Arthur Guiterman
#12. Awoke to find three vultures sitting on the fence. Realizing they were a portent of impending death I shot them.
Bridget Allison
#13. Simply building a fence between a child and temptation is not the same things as preparing him to face life.
Barbara R. Duguid
#14. Jon Glass had vaulted over the fence and was now approaching a horse chosen by some sort of weird horse-knowledge method, or possibly because it was shiny.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#15. Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.
Ben Aaronovitch
#16. 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
#17. Instead of getting a soft fence against the cold, shadowy, unapplausive audience of his life, had he only given it a more substantial presence?
George Eliot
#18. Behind Ise Shrine, unseen, hidden by the fence, Buddha sees nirvana.
Gary Gauthier
#19. The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#20. 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
#21. In order to understand more it is imperative that we improve our knowledge before choosing which side of the fence we feel compelled to belong,
J.P. Robinson
#22. 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
#23. Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.
William Faulkner
#24. There is a cyclone fence between ourselves and the slaughter and behind it we hover in a calm protected world like netted fish, exactly like netted fish. It is either the beginning or the end of the world, and the choice is ourselves or nothing.
Carolyn Forche
#25. The best way to catch a horse is to build a fence around it.
Emmylou Harris
#26. How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you - you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences - like rags and shreds of your very life.
Katherine Mansfield
#27. The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies and I would hop the fence and sneak on and play.
Ray Romano
#28. we leaned against the fence, basking in what passed for normal with us. A werewolf pack in my back yard, a wizard grilling steaks,
Ben Reeder
#29. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#30. There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.
Sting
#31. 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 man.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#32. By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence.
Luke Harding
#33. I have been described by one of my colleagues as a 'militant agnostic' with my tagline, 'I don't know, and neither do you!' I take this hard-line, fence-sitting position because it is the only position consistent with both my scientific ethos and my conscience.
Brian Schmidt
#34. When Lilia was four years old, her mother filled a shallow dish with Lilia's blood and fed it to the boars that patrolled the thorn fence.
Kameron Hurley
#36. Mallory Quinn was sweet, warm, and caring. She was a white picket fence and two-point-four kids. She was a diamond ring. She was someone's keeper.
Jill Shalvis
#37. You could not fence with an antagonist who met rapier thrust with blow of battle axe.
L.M. Montgomery
#39. The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back to a lesson that it wants to shirk.
C.S. Lewis
#40. Where we goin'? Wade whispers to me as we approach the white picket fence that surrounds the row of wooden crosses.
For all I know my grandmother could be planning to shoot us and bury us with the rest of the family, but I don't think it would help to share this notion with Wade
Carolee Dean
#41. In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.
Ken Harrelson
#42. Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?
Jesse Helms
#43. A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
Arthur Baer
#44. 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
#45. If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
Felix Frankfurter
#47. 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
#48. 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 for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.
Gary Ross
#49. Cats are the slipperiest of domestic animals. Thousands of years of genetic coding has taught them to melt into azaleas, lie motionless behind garden gnomes, glide along fence tops, and slink under benches.
Caroline Paul
#50. The woman must look like the weathered side of a rotted fence post if she had to get a man this way.
Lindsey Brookes
#51. And I don't believe that I have to stay on one side of the fence or the other. I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.
Whoopi Goldberg
#52. Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do.
Amy Dickinson
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. I guess when you're happy where you are, the grass don't seem so green on the other side of the fence. Maybe it never was.
Sarah McCoy
#56. 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
#57. Many clouds arise, On all sides a manifold fence, To receive within it the spouses, They form a manifold fence - Ah! that manifold fence!" Nihongi, trans. by W. G. Aston.
F. Hadland Davis
#58. He used it on the next guard, the one in front of the fence. He disarmed him, a kid, a baby, really, and the guard said, 'You going to kill me?'
'Jesus, kid, no,' Teddy said and snapped the butt of the rifle into the kid's temple.
Dennis Lehane
#59. The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature.
Douglas Coupland
#60. I played around our yard some and talked to the fence posts, sung songs and made the weeds sing ... - WOODY GUTHRIE
Richard Louv
#61. The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.
John Locke
#62. The dog proved to be as dumb and stubborn as a mud fence, so Stranahan had named him Strom.
Carl Hiaasen
#63. Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.
Vanna Bonta
#64. When asked the inevitable question of "Does the ball ever talk back?" Mark answered, "The only time that happens is when it's going over the fence, it yells back to me that I shouldn't have thrown that pitch.
Doug Wilson
#65. 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 a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.
Ben Carson
#66. Never say "I don't care"! We are all looking up to you. Dare to break the fence that confines you! Make it happen!
Israelmore Ayivor
#67. I don't try to hit the ball 500 feet. It looks good when you hit it 500 feet, but as long as it goes over the fence, it's a home run. When you swing hard, it takes a little bit of recognition away from you. The power you're trying to increase - you're not all the way through it with your vision.
David Ortiz
#68. Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.
Haruki Murakami
#69. Winning depends on where you put your priorities. It's usually best to put them over the fence.
Jason Giambi
#70. There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.
Queen Mary
#71. She looked up at him with a grin. "I have a hard time picturing you with a house and a white picket fence." He shrugged. "Maybe I like picket fences." "I don't know, maybe it's the way I met you but assault rifles and picket fences seem juxtapositioned.
Denise Grover Swank
#72. Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced; it also imprisons the protected.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#74. Last week, when I went early into my garden, a rose-breasted grosbeak was sitting on the fence. Oh, he was beautiful as a flower. I hardly dared to breathe, I did not stir, and we gazed at each other fully five minutes before he concluded to move.
Celia Thaxter
#75. I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.
Matt Dillon
#76. There are many poor men and poor women: set apart some one constantly to remain there: let the poor man be though but as a guard to thy house: let him be to thee wall and fence, shield and spear. Where alms are, the devil dares not approach, nor any other evil thing.
Saint John Chrysostom
#77. I was trying my best to just stop that ball from going over the fence, I'd sacrifice my body if I have to. I've done that my whole career.
Torii Hunter
#78. I ran straight into the wooden fence at the foot of the field.
I was lucky that it had been a rail fence, rather than a barbed wire, or I would have shredded myself into vampire linguine.
Helen Keeble
#79. Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.
Silvan Shalom
#80. If it wasn't for the fact that Bruno was nowhere near as skinny as the boys on his side of the fence, and not quite so pale either, it would have been difficult to tell them apart. It was almost (Shmuel thought) as if they were all exactly the same really.
John Boyne
#81. 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
#82. Do you ever feel like running away?" "Of course ... Sometimes I feel like I want to run away from everything." "I remember having that feeling once when I was at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm ... I climbed over the fence, but I was still in the world!
Charles M. Schulz
#83. If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence.
James Woods
#84. They claim this mother of ours, the earth, for their own and fence their neighbors away; they deface her with their buildings and their refuse. That nation is like a spring freshet that overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. We cannot dwell side by side.
Sitting Bull
#85. The grass wasn't greener on the other side of the fence; it was greener where it was watered.
Debbie Macomber
#86. It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
Jim Rohn
#87. 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
#88. We're on the other side of the fence now, Lena,' she says, tiredly, as she passes. Don't you get it? You can't tell me what to feel.
Lauren Oliver
#89. She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
Elizabeth Taylor
#90. When you think about it, building this fence is crazy. Animals will keep climbing over it, or under it, or chewing their way through it. All kinds of animals. Maybe even some we didn't know existed.
Laura Ruby
#91. I don't believe in ghosts - not the scary white sheet, boogie-woogie type of ghost anyway. And yet ... I don't disbelieve either. I'm kind of sitting on the ghost fence, dangling my legs on both sides, not sure which way to jump. I think I might be here for a while.
Karen Tayleur
#93. The greener grass is getting more water. Water the grass on your side of the fence and stop looking over at what's on the other side
Terri D.
#94. Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
Carl Sandburg
#95. The rest of them moved toward the fence, in complete silence. Each of the teenagers jumped swiftly onto the iron spikes. With a blurry speed, they climbed up onto the sharp finials, and leaped down to the other side
A.O. Peart
#96. You have to understand for my whole life I have been romanticized by this other side of the fence. This whole darker, egotistically, sort of mean world. I fully embraced that world and three or four years ago I completely walked away from that world, literally.
Shane Bunting
#97. Satan may build a hedge about us and fence us in and hinder our movements, but he cannot roof us in and prevent our looking up.
Hudson Taylor
#98. You're putting in this fence? Isn't there someone ... ? If he said more qualified, I swore to myself that I would use that nail gun on his beautiful arm.
Alessandra Torre
#99. Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of Mexico. I did not go with a plan. I went, as I said in my announcement address, to ask him his ideas - how we could make the border something other than a locale for a nine-foot fence.
Ronald Reagan
#100. Can I ask you something? He added after a moment.
'yes,' said Shmuel.
Bruno thought about it. He wanted to phrase the question just right.
'why are there so many people on that side of the fence?' He asked. 'And what are you all doing there?
John Boyne
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