Quotes About Picket Fences

#1. One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.

Anne Sexton

#2. If there was anything she had learned from her mother, it was the painful understanding that cages come in all sizes - some even have white picket fences, four walls, and a front door.

Jamie Ford

#3. Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.

Jimmy Carter

#4. I've always seen white picket fences in your eyes when you look at me. I was positive I wasn't that guy. I was wrong. One of these days, when you're ready, I'll give that dream to you. And you're going to give me a gorgeous little girl or two with your dark curly hair and smiles that slay me.

Sylvia Day

#5. 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, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.

Anne Sexton

#6. ... With a slight miscalculated leap cleared to the iron picket fence. Put the fear of God into me, picket fences and balls don't mix.

J.P. Donleavy

#7. Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

Dennis Lehane

#8. Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

Chuck Eddy

#9. Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams. We carry on.

Tim McGraw

#10. 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

#11. I'm an entrepreneur at heart. I'm not afraid of starting up, starting over or even failing for that matter, because the fact that I try new things in itself is a victory.

Lynn Collins

#12. Music is my breath, blood and food - without music I would perish; the actor in me would die.

Dhanush

#13. Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.

Milan Kundera

#14. Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

Marian Wright Edelman

#15. Life is a great disappointment.

Oscar Wilde

#16. A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.

Aristotle.

#17. World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name.

Gore Vidal

#18. I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

Jack Henry Abbott

#19. Whether your thoughts and feelings are good or bad, they return as automatically and precisely as an echo.

Rhonda Byrne

#20. 22 A beautiful woman who rejects good sense is like a gold ring in a pig's snout.

Anonymous