Fence Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Fear is the highest fence.

A fence to wisdom is silence.

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!

I set very bold goals. It's how I've always been. I'm definitely somebody who swings for the fences, and I expect very high performance.

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

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

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House.

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

If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

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

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

If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."

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

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

Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.

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

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

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.

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

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

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

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.

Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror.

There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.

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

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

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.

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

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

Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

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

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

The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a pulp. Program content is seen increasingly as a mere backdrop on which ads are posted like billboards on a fence.

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

I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.

[Movie "Fences"] is more than holds up today. We have had a tremendous response at the screenings.

When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility.

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

In 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He wanted to know if I wanted to act in it, direct it or produce it. I said, "Well, let me read it first."

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

Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.

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.

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

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