Quotes About White 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. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Write poetry as if you were in love. If you are always in love you will not always write the same poem, but if you are never in love, you may.
- from My Olivetti Speaks

Kenneth Koch

#7. A great leader makes what is visible in their mind, visible to all.

Ron Kaufman

#8. 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

#9. I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

Elizabeth George

#10. Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#11. 18th February 2015

Terry Gillan

#12. The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

Dar Williams

#13. I was angry at God until I came to understand that it isn't God's fault when people mistreat me. I still have my doubts at times, but I try to remember that God has given them the same free will that He's given me.

Jennifer Hudson Taylor

#14. Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75).

Donna Jo Napoli

#15. I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.

Rachel Zoe

#16. Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

Abraham Maslow