Other Side Of The Fence Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Bruno was jealous, he had to wear stupid pants en shoes while the boys at the other side of the fence were wearing nice pyjamas al day long

John Boyne

#3. Even if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, keep to your own side; it's where you belong. There you can plant your own grass and tend to it.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#4. Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.

Douglas Adams

#5. Of course the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Why do you think the neighbors put up the fence?

Teresa Bloomingdale

#6. 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 it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Robert Fulghum

#7. I don't want to be one of those women too consumed with hate and who let their insecurities get the best of them. I prefer to be on the other side of the fence, with the romantics who believe in second chances.

Nicole Huggins

#8. This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

Michael Phelps

#9. Is the grass really greener on the other side of the fence? No. The grass is greener where you water it.

Melissa Michaels

#10. Consider this- many times people on the other side of the fence are admiring how green your grass is!

Beverly LaHaye

#11. I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.

Clark Gable

#12. If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

Debbie Macomber

#13. Only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.

John Boyne

#14. 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

#15. The grass wasn't greener on the other side of the fence; it was greener where it was watered.

Debbie Macomber

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. The grass beyond your fence is always greener, but don't jump the fence to see whether it is actually so. Enjoy it! If it is greener on the other side of the fence, enjoy it. Why destroy things by jumping the fence and finding out that it is worse than your own grass?

Osho

#19. The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.

Robert Fulghum

#20. Grass isn't greener on the other side of the fence ... it's just a different kind of grass.

G.J. Phoenix

#21. She was thinking that the grass really could be greener on the other side of the fence. It depended on who wa standing in the grass. Maybe you had to go take a look

Lynne Rae Perkins

#22. A door slammed next door. The serial killer looked up and over as a flurry of white fur pounded against the other side of the fence. "Don't start with me, you little runt, or you'll be next.

Jennifer Skully

#23. Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

Sam Shepard

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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.

#27. 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

#28. You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is a dream.

Erin Morgenstern

#29. Power has always corrupted, my dear. Even the promise of power. It is a hard thing to look at through the fence for hundreds of years without wondering what it would be like on the other side.

Ally Carter

#30. Strauss again brought up my need to speak and wrtie simply and directly so that people will understand me. He reminds me that language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway. Ironic to find myself on the other side of the intellectual fence.

Daniel Keyes