Quotes about Fence

Fear is the highest fence. Votes: 4

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence. Votes: 4

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. Votes: 4

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help. Votes: 4

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it. Votes: 4

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse. Votes: 4

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base. Votes: 4

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. Votes: 4

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. Votes: 4

I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence. Votes: 4

Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer. Votes: 3

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. Votes: 3

Yalena: Could you always open your door? Kiki: Yes. Fence, too. Yalena Why don't you? Kiki: Hay sweet. Fresh water. Peppermints. Votes: 3

I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.' Votes: 3

Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position. Votes: 3

There was a fence and there was this other van- So I go, 'Fence or van? Cause I'm crashing into one of them,' and I said 'Fence,' so I hit the fence and bounced into the van Votes: 3

The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle. Votes: 3

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence. Votes: 2

If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence. Votes: 2

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul. Votes: 2

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process. Votes: 2

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. Votes: 2

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. Votes: 2

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out. Votes: 2

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. Votes: 2

I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon. Votes: 2

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get. Votes: 2

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions. Votes: 2

It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote. Votes: 2

You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive. Votes: 2

When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word. Votes: 2

Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet. Votes: 2

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. Votes: 2

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be. Votes: 2

I know that, as a bisexual, sometimes people who are gay or lesbian look down upon the bisexual community as well and assume that people who are bisexual just don't know what they want or are just playing both sides of the fence, and that's not the case, either. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes. Votes: 2

So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under. Votes: 2

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence. Votes: 2

We need to know who's in the United States. We need to know everyone who's in the United States that comes in here from a foreign country. And we have to separate the ones who are dangerous from the ones who aren't. To accomplish that, we need a fence. We need a technological fence. We need a border patrol. Votes: 2

I'm in love with red. I think it's such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. It's power, there's no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don't. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. They're all magic. Votes: 2

That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link fence and you could be on the other side and they could be trying to get to you and six feet down could be an open door and they will not go through that door in the fence. That's why they're so scary. Votes: 2

If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side. Votes: 1

I'm not white-picket-fence perfect. Votes: 0

A fence to wisdom is silence. Votes: 0

Border fence hasn't worked; border patrols & tech have. Votes: 0

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. Votes: 0

If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence. Votes: 0

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible. Votes: 0

If the fence is strong enough I'll sit on it. Votes: 0

Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in. Votes: 0

Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence. Votes: 0

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. Votes: 0

Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas. Votes: 0

Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision. Votes: 0

You have a 12-foot fence. You know what'll happen? Thirteen foot ladders. Votes: 0

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade. Votes: 0

Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points. Votes: 0

Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence. Votes: 0

I just swung for the fence. That's my whole philosophy in life. Votes: 0

Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence. Votes: 0

Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help. Votes: 0

I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom. Votes: 0

What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides? Votes: 0

What has you roaring like a bull with his prick hung in a fence? Votes: 0

You must have been going very fast." "I was, until I hit the fence. Votes: 0

You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter? Votes: 0

The best way to catch a horse is to build a fence around it. Votes: 0

I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another. Votes: 0

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence. Votes: 0

It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence. Votes: 0

We see every day that our very laws have both sides of the fence. Votes: 0

The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters. Votes: 0

Words slip into a language the way white-green vines slide between slats in a fence. Votes: 0

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs. Votes: 0

I'm one of these people that always looks on the bad side of the fence. Votes: 0

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it. Votes: 0

Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house. Votes: 0

Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill? Votes: 0

There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence. Votes: 0

There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence. Votes: 0

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life. Votes: 0

It's plain that a fence is of no consequence, If the ambulance works in the valley. Votes: 0

Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror. Votes: 0

I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats. Votes: 0

Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence. Votes: 0

Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's. Votes: 0

Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, and therein stay. Votes: 0

I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence. Votes: 0

Winning depends on where you put your priorities. It's usually best to put them over the fence. Votes: 0

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire. Votes: 0

A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run. Votes: 0

At the White House, they caught another fence jumper earlier today. It was Obama trying to get out. Votes: 0

I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence. Votes: 0

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first. Votes: 0

Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do. Votes: 0

Every politician must be able to keep both feet on the fence with his ear to the ground. Votes: 0

Elvis walked over and signed a few autographs over the fence. They were screaming. I had never seen this. Votes: 0

You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world. Votes: 0

When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that. Votes: 0

The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch. Votes: 0

A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it. Votes: 0

The problem is, if El Chapo builds a tunnel under the fence, we need to deal with that too. Votes: 0

Simply building a fence between a child and temptation is not the same things as preparing him to face life. Votes: 0

he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall. Votes: 0

The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night. Votes: 0

I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue. Votes: 0

He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence. Votes: 0

Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place. Votes: 0

Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me. Votes: 0

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher. Votes: 0

I'd like to have a nice home set up, with a couple of dogs, and a fence, white picket fence. Votes: 0

On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side. Votes: 0

Obsession is like a pretty, little, picket fence that offers itself up as a thin line--a separation between ingenuity and insanity. Votes: 0

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered. Votes: 0

India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems, Votes: 0

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in. Votes: 0

And I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes. Votes: 0

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. Votes: 0

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that. Votes: 0

So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity. Votes: 0

She wants the kids, the cars, the house, and the white picket fence. I said sure, I can give you a fence. Votes: 0

If you just take one foot in front of the other without any protection, you may end up falling off the fence. Votes: 0

It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others? Votes: 0

In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. Votes: 0

This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away. Votes: 0

Of course the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Why do you think the neighbors put up the fence? Votes: 0

I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot. Votes: 0

If my wheel comes off and I hit the fence real hard, I get to whack every damn one of you with a hammer. Votes: 0

You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is. Votes: 0

Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter. Votes: 0

Age is a limit we impose upon ourselves. You know, each time you Westerners celebrate your birthday you build another fence around your minds. Votes: 0

He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce. Votes: 0

She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. Votes: 0

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy. Votes: 0

I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence. Votes: 0

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party. Votes: 0

To give you an idea how bad the American economy is, Mexico is now calling for a fence along the border. Stay on your side! Votes: 0

Look outside the window. Do you see the fence outside the palace? Do you see any guards? This is a country where everyone is safe. Votes: 0

The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence Votes: 0

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in. Votes: 0

A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness. Votes: 0

We have the responsibility to protect our people and that's why we're building this fence. We've suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years. Votes: 0

Today was opening day for the new Congress in Washington. And Vice President Joe Biden swore in the new batch of White House fence jumpers. Votes: 0

The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built. Votes: 0

Now seen...now gone,The butterfly flits in and outThrough fence-hung flowers;But a life lived so close to themI envy...though it's here and gone. Votes: 0

The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence. Votes: 0

You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man. Votes: 0

As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence. Votes: 0

Satan may build a hedge about us and fence us in and hinder our movements, but he cannot roof us in and prevent our looking up. Votes: 0

There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough. Votes: 0

Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis. Votes: 0

There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember. Votes: 0

I can attempt to stay on the fence. However, the problem is that the fence is a figment of my fear not a reality of my journey. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth - without a fence around it. Votes: 0

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree. Votes: 0

Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone. Votes: 0

If you are not angry with your average performance, you can't effect a change! You must get upset to grab the energy to break the fence confining you! Votes: 0

If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill. Votes: 0

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters. Votes: 0

President Obama has appointed a new head of the Secret Service. The new Secret Service director was so excited that he jumped over the White House fence for joy. Votes: 0

But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden. Votes: 0

I was trying my best to just stop that ball from going over the fence, I'd sacrifice my body if I have to. I've done that my whole career. Votes: 0

I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. Votes: 0

The top 15 contenders for the Republican nomination own at least 40 guns among them. If we elect a Republican president no one is hopping over the White House fence ever again. Votes: 0

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need. Votes: 0

In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue. Votes: 0

Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures. Votes: 0

I always thought it was a goat that kicked me over the fence. My mama told me the other day it was a cow. Now I'm sort of scared of both. Votes: 0

The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values. Votes: 0

Sometimes you have to go outside your boundaries. You have to jump over that fence, but I always felt very comfortable (in my jobs) because I worked with some good people. Votes: 0

Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple. Votes: 0

There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself. Votes: 0

The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence. Votes: 0

In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good. Votes: 0

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization. Votes: 0

There's capital controls and there's people control. So every time you think of a fence keeping all those bad people out, think about those fences maybe being used against us, keeping us in. Votes: 0

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive. Votes: 0

Cats are the slipperiest of domestic animals. Thousands of years of genetic coding has taught them to melt into azaleas, lie motionless behind garden gnomes, glide along fence tops, and slink under benches. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat. Votes: 0

Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence, as one, disturb me to tears this autumn dusk. Votes: 0

The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies and I would hop the fence and sneak on and play. Votes: 0

And, to be honest, if weed is a gateway drug, then I really did hop the fence, but sometimes I can't help but miss the sticky-sweet warmth of a good old fashioned hot box. Votes: 0

Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in. Votes: 0

The art of cursing people seems to have lost its tang since the old days when a good malediction took four deep breaths to deliverand sent the outfielders scurrying toward the fence to field. Votes: 0

You could be in the gutter and fall in love with someone, and you feel great. That's my honest opinion. I've witnessed both sides of that fence and being in love is where it's at. Votes: 0

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over. Votes: 0

If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff. Votes: 0

I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in Votes: 0

A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post. Votes: -1