Quotes About Barbed Wire

#1. Peaceful circulation has been interupted by barbed wire and concrete blocks. For a city or a people to be truly free, they must have the secure right, without economic, political or police pressure, to make their own choices and live their own lives.

John F. Kennedy

#2. 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 our problems.

Ron Paul

#3. War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. The War,' said a soldier proverb, 'will last a hundred years
five years of fighting and ninety-give of winding up the barbed wire.

Preston William Slosson

#5. True Love Isn't Hearts & Flowers. It's Blood & Guts & Bouquets Of Barbed Wire

Dean Cavanagh

#6. I'd rather hug Magic Johnson after he rolled around in barbed wire.

Jim Norton

#7. If I had to marry someone, it wouldn't be a bossy little gal with a tongue like barbed-wire and a mind about as narrow.

Jim Thompson

#8. Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is a "barbed-wire entanglement" designed to interfere with, restrict, and impede government officials in the exercise of political power.

Jacob G. Hornberger

#9. A bikini is like a barbed-wire fence. It protects the property without obstructing the view.

Joey Adams

#10. This is how your heart gets
snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.

Pete Wentz

#11. HER BARBED-WIRE SMILE
LIFTED YOU TO HEAVEN
BUT I HAVE TO ASK
DID GOD LOOK LIKE HER VOICE

Amy King

#12. Standing up for yourself is about more than flinging barbed-wire insults around. Its about picking your battles, knowing when to fight, knowing exactly what and who is worth fighting for.

Paula Stokes

#13. I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.

Foxy Brown

#14. As soon as Tara looked at the skull-and-barbed-wire
tattoo showing beneath the sleeve of Flynn O'Mara's tight t-shirt, she flashed on a jail cell. Bummer. His Dad's in jail

Sharon Sala

#15. All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a good fright, entangle a Yorkshire terrier for life, and is nasty stuff made by greedy men.

Billy Connolly

#16. Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

B.R. Ambedkar

#17. Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.

Jim Thompson

#18. [Percy] kept hoping things would get better for Annabeth and him, but their lives just got more dangerous, as if the Three Fates were up there spinning their futures with barbed wire instead of thread just to see how much two demigods could tolerate.

Rick Riordan

#19. In August, the Hungarians cut the barbed wire at their border with Austria, creating the first hole in the Eastern Bloc.

Anna Funder

#20. Human reason is beautiful and invincible.
No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books,
No sentence of banishment can prevail against it.
It puts what should be above things as they are.
It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master.

Czeslaw Milosz

#21. When the United States wants cheap labor, Mexicans respond. When the employment market north of the border is glutted, the barbed wire gets taut, the border patrols fix bayonets, the vigilantes get busy, and the walls go up.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

#22. I have a whole box full of pieces of the Berlin Wall and a heart made from the barbed wire of the Iron Curtain. It's - they're cherished treasures to me now, of course.

Carol Guzy

#23. prickly pears from behind a barbed-wire fence. Faded lettering on the sign, designed as a lasso that had at one

John J. Asher

#24. But I do, and the barbed wire tightens once more, until my heart is strangled and broken.

A.G. Howard

#25. Basketball courts ringed with barbed-wire fence.

Donna Tartt

#26. The heart of it all is mystery, and science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery
a ragged barbed-wire fence through which mystery travels, back and forth, unencumbered by anything so frail as man's knowledge.

Rick Bass

#27. We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.

Janice Mirikitani

#28. Back in the days of the great Depression, an old sign dangled by one staple from a piece of rusting barbed wire. The owner of the farm had written:
'Burned out by drought,
Drowned out by flud waters,
Et out by jack-rabbits,
Sold out by sheriff,
STILL HERE.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#29. We marched. Gates opened and closed. We continued to march between the barbed wire. At every step, white signs with black skulls looked down on us. The inscription: WARNING! DANGER OF DEATH. What irony. Was there here a single place where one was NOT in danger of death?

Elie Wiesel

#30. I will greet you with a mouth full of barbed wire until you learn to stop coming after me with your hands.

Trista Mateer

#31. The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#32. The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly. It is full of barbed wire and the stumps of dead opinions.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#33. It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#34. Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders ... The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip.

Ronald Reagan

#35. The inside of his skull, it tasted like roses and barbed wire and butterflies. Switchblades and heroin and grassy green gardens.

Mercedes M. Yardley

#36. Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

George Takei

#37. When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire.

Andrew O'Hagan

#38. True Love Isn't Hearts & Flowers. It's Blood & Guts & Bouquets Of Barbed Wire

Dean Cavanagh

#39. Cuba is just a slave-prison. Our only crime is brith, but our sentence is life behind barbed wire and prison bars.

Jaxy Mono

#40. I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence.

Brendan

#41. Line of control must be renamed as garden of love and the barbed wire fencing should be replaced by the garden of flowers.

Amit Ray

#42. had gone to work in Worcester's famous Washburn & Moen barbed wire factory: Swedes were preferred by employers there because, unlike the Irish, they did not tend to get either fighting drunk or unionized.

Richard Davenport-Hines

#43. 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

#44. And you, Bloss, may shove it ... sideways ... with barbed wire wrapped around it.

McKevett

#45. take it from an old man like me, life's too short to get hung up on a little bit of barbed wire

Theresa Shea

#46. A hymn for freedom;
without border barriers and barbed wire fences.
A hymn for freedom;
without astute words.
A hymn for freedom;
without wars of every man against every man.
A hymn to freedom;
at any time and any place,
because only freedom will set us free.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#47. 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 great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.

Luther Burbank

#48. Eric has said that I carry close to my chest a ball of barbed wire that I sometimes throw at other people.

Weike Wang

#49. The world was a shitpot with a barbed-wire handle and the further he could kick it the better he liked it.

Jim Thompson

#50. What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.

Sylvia Plath

#51. When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.

H. H. Asquith

#52. That missleproof glass might as well have been electrified fence and barbed wire. No one could fashion a prison so perfect, so complete, as the one the masters of humanity had created for themselves.

S.J. Kincaid

#53. Do you listen to disco?" "I'd rather eat barbed wire.

Colleen Hoover

#54. Oh, what did she finally decide on?" asked the pilot. "At one point she told me she was thinking of sending the bride a barbed-wire choke chain for Miles, but was afraid it might be misinterpreted." "No

Lois McMaster Bujold

#55. I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

George Takei

#56. And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.

Raymond Chandler

#57. I can't tell if I'm feeling butterflies or barbed wire in my stomach.

Jessica Hawkins

#58. What does barbed wire feel like when you grip it, as though it were a plate and a fork, or a handful of flowers?

Mary Oliver

#59. When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and other targeted mass atrocity crimes because they may not look the same.

John Prendergast

#60. And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be
like barbed wire to keep out despair,
hope must be a mine field.

Yehuda Amichai

#61. If the story's there for it, if there's a reason for it, then I'm all for it. But if you throw in a barbed wire match just to do a barbed wire match, then it makes no sense to me.

CM Punk

#62. All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.

D.H. Lawrence

#63. The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with real fear. In fact, we felt this was not a bad thing; we were entirely among ourselves. A

Elie Wiesel

#64. What had he been Thinking? If a fella was looking for love, I was the wrong road to go down. I was the road, in fact, that was crawling with barbed wire and bears and dynamite, marked with huge signs that said THERE IS NOTHING FOR YOU HERE.

Joshilyn Jackson

#65. A goddess of dawn
scooted under a zing of barbed wire
to witness your birth.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#66. This is my barbed wire dress. It protects the property but doesn't hide the view.

Candy Darling

#67. A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.

Phillip Noyce

#68. A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Sophia Loren