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

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

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

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.

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

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

It was hard, that confrontation scene [in "Fences"], that was a hard one. I felt like it was relentless, I never felt like I could just drop the ball when the coverage was on him or anything else.

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep.

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

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

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

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.

[Fences] is just a great play to bring to the screen.