Quotes and Sayings About Fence
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There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
-- A. E. Housman -
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
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You must have been going very fast." "I was, until I hit the fence.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
-- Arthur Baer -
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I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.
-- Bob Hawke -
If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House?
-- Charles KrauthammerSource : "Pushing immigration reform". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. July 1, 2014.
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A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it.
-- Dick Francis -
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The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority.
-- Felix FrankfurterSource : "Patriotic Gore" by Brian Doherty, reason.com. January 18, 2006.
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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors.
-- Felix Frankfurter -
I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.
-- Harry S. Truman -
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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
-- Henry A. Kissinger -
Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?
-- Jesse Helms -
If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence.
-- Julie KroneSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.
-- Katherine MansfieldSource : Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA
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And I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.
-- Laini Taylor -
I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.
-- Marlon Wayans -
Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.
-- Morgan Freeman -
When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
-- Morrie Schwartz -
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
-- Quincy Jones -
A fence to wisdom is silence.
-- Rabbi AkivaSource : Pirkei Avot, 3:17,
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Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.
-- Richard Engel -
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.
-- Robert ArdreySource : Robert Ardrey (1966). “THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE”
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Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house.
-- Saddam Hussein -
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.
-- Sam Shepard -
In a world without fences, who needs Gates?
-- Scott McNealySource : "Javaman: The Adventures of Scott McNealy. Today's Episode: His Fight to Save the World Wide Web from the Evil Empire" by Brent Schlender, money.cnn.com. October 13, 1997.
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I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.
-- Shemar Moore -
Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.
-- Shonda RhimesSource : "Grey's Anatomy: The First Cut Is the Deepest". www.imdb.com. 2005.