Quotes About Picket

#1. My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.

Imelda Marcos

#2. I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

Heidi Klum

#3. The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it's invalid on its face.

Potter Stewart

#4. I'd like to have a nice home set up, with a couple of dogs, and a fence, white picket fence.

Martin Starr

#5. Shadows crept along the ground like slowly seeping India ink, moved up the sides of the house, and slipped through the slats on the picket fence. Sunset tinted the sky purple and pink.

Kristin Hannah

#6. I think people instinctively know that their job is to give service and that they are part of a community. It had a great impact on me when my father walked the picket lines and I walked with him during the civil rights movement.

Russell Simmons

#7. Our lives are always safest, not when we have a good paying job or a big retirement account or when we live in the suburbs with a white picket fence, but when our lives are firmly placed in the hands of God.

Louie Giglio

#8. My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in a white picket neighborhood.

Michael Franti

#9. The thing about nonviolence is that it spreads. When you get people to participate in nonviolent action - whether it's a fast, a march, a boycott, or a picket line - people hear you, people see you, people are learning from that action.

Dolores Huerta

#10. When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn't want to do. I didn't want to grow up, have 2.2 kids, get married, the whole white picket fence thing.

Jody Williams

#11. I'd given up on the white picket fence after Kisten had died - finding out my kids would be demons was the nail in the coffin.

Kim Harrison

#12. I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

Noam Chomsky

#13. All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

Ethel Lynn Beers

#14. If a sentence were a picket fence, the serial commas would be posts at regular intervals.

Anonymous

#15. 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

#16. Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action.

Julian Bond

#17. Now the profile of our country looks a little less hard nosed / but that picket line persisted and that clinic's since been closed / they keep pounding their fists on reality hoping it will break / but I don't think there's a one of us leads a life free of mistakes

Ani DiFranco

#18. [picket sign] COGITO ERGO NOTHING! ... [casual passerby:] "Cogito ergo your ass" ...

Donald Barthelme

#19. I'm not the white-picket-fence kind of guy. So don't go building castles in the air. You'll get trapped in the rubble when they collapse.

Maureen Child

#20. Richard has informed me he is shopping for his white picket fence. I'm happy behind my black wrought iron fence. The one with the pointy spikes on top. White never really was my color.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#21. I think a lot of women look at prostitutes like they're scabs crossing an union picket line, where they go: You can't just go out and sell it for what it's worth, we're holding out for so much more!

Doug Stanhope

#22. When he smiled his teeth looked like a picket fence that a tornado had wrecked.

Carolyn Brown

#23. Limousines with liveried chauffers delivered earnest ladies to the picket lines, sometimes in strikes against businesses which helped pay for the limousines.

Eugene Lyons

#24. Aw, you shouldn't judge a flower by who picket it.

J.M. Darhower

#25. If (a particular researcher) won't stop when you ask nicely, when you picket in front of his house, or when you burn his car, maybe he'll stop when you hit him over the head with a two-by-four.

Jerry Vlasak

#26. 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

#27. Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.

Cesar Chavez

#28. I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind of like to have just the white picket fence life if that makes sense.

Nicole Kidman

#29. Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not.

Tom Brady

#30. Do I seem like the white-picket-fence sort of girl to you, Carl?" "No, you seem like the blood-soaked-walls kind of girl to me.

Vicki Pettersson

#31. 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

#32. Matson threw up his skinny arms to protect himself as something huge and quick shoved its way between the bars, like a big dog going through a rotten picket fence, and engulfed him.

Jim Butcher

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

Dennis Lehane

#34. ... 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

#35. I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

Maya Angelou

#36. All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.

Ethel Lynn Beers

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. With trembling eyes, Like a caged bird, From behind the picket-fence, She watched you go.

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

#40. If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.

Ed Koch

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

Anne Sexton

#42. When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.

Cesar Chavez

#43. The right side of the screen then shows a close-up of the protestors. There are only about thirty of them, but Gods bless them they're energetic. And they have catchy picket signs, like: "Set the dragon-people free!" and "Dragons are people, too!" and "End Racial Segregation! Again!

Sarah Nicolas

#44. I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

Matt Dillon

#45. Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

Cesar Chavez

#46. In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

Gary Ross

#47. Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at which you will finally stop running, at which you will finally fight back.

Derrick Jensen

#48. Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do.

Amy Dickinson

#49. He was aware, as he did so, of a poignant air of tragic dedication in all his actions, the dutiful routines of a doomed picket manning his lonely watch, as, beyond the next range of hills, the barbarian horde mounted its conquering ponies.

Michael Chabon

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979).

Whitey Herzog

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I'm concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I've never been a networker or I've never been very social.

Joss Whedon

#57. You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program. That's our role.

Whitney M. Young

#58. What is it, Father?" Picket asked as Mother tenderly took Jacks from him. "It's only that, when you're older, you hand out wisdom to your children like you know everything, but it is sometimes hard to follow your own advice.

S.D. Smith

#59. And thoughts of no other man but you could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind.

Ani DiFranco

#60. Go to your happy place. Go to the house, the one with the red door and the white picket fence. Go back to where nighttime meant kisses and hugs, bedtime stories and cuddles with Buster. Go to where sunrises were promises instead of just false hope. Go to where love still lives.

J.M. Darhower

#61. I had the blessing of opportunity. You need the folks in the boardroom who have consciences and the people in the streets who can picket at the right time.

Julian Castro

#62. I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

Ilona Andrews

#63. This is a place where people make and are made. You are what you do. Choose wisely, young Picket. Choose wisely, brave Heather. Understand?

S.D. Smith

#64. One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

Camryn Manheim

#65. It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.

Sarah McLachlan

#66. Society has changed so dramatically that it's empowered the individual, and technology has a lot to do with that. Years ago, if you had a bad experience at a restaurant, you could complain to the manager. Maybe you could picket. Now, you go online and write a review that may go viral.

Brad Katsuyama

#67. There is a saying: It won't get better if you picket.

Terry Pratchett

#68. Keeping it all together as a modern woman means multitasking, especially when you work. I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it. I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

Heidi Klum

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

Jimmy Carter

#70. We're going to pray a lot and picket a lot.

Cesar Chavez

#71. You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

Paul Robeson

#72. Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.

Lindsey Vonn