Fence Quotes - Page 14

• Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Vanity, Deer, Donkey

  Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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• 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.

  Lee Iacocca

  Apples, Pie, Yards

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• ...let us save what remains; not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Eye, Locks, Use

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.122, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 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.

  Ray Romano

  Queens, Golf, Play

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

  Gary Ross

  Doe, World, Want

  "Interview: Gary Ross breathes his life into 'Pleasantville'". www.cnn.com. October 12, 1998.

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

  Zadie Smith

  Empathy, Stronger, Weakness

  "This Week in Fiction: Zadie Smith" by Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. February 3, 2013.

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• Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.

  James Wolcott

  Fence Post, Envelopes, Skinny

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• I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I would have made a very good bishop: nice housekeeper, nice clothes - god, the clothes.

  Colm Toibin

  Girl, Nice, Boys

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• And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention.

  Donald Miller

  Nature, Eye, Men

  Donald Miller (2005). “Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road”, p.253, Harper Collins

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• I was competing in an IPC World Cup race, but the finish area was short and I came across the line with my head down and went straight through the fence. It was only because the Italian team doctor leapt out to grab me that I didn't smash through the café window.

  Heather Mills

  Team, Italian, Doctors

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Virginia, America

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Excursions and Poems : The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20)”, p.73, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

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• I think my life actually changed at 40. That's when you realize you can't ride the fence anymore. You either have to get on one side or the other. I think some of my best years were between 40 and 50: I got my priorities straight and life is good to me now. It's only other people who say, "God, she's 50 years old!" as if I'm over the hill. I feel like I just started.

  Dolly Parton

  Life Is Good, Thinking, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Peter Yarrow

  Song, Different, Kind

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

  Red Smith

  Thinking, Citizens, World

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

  Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

  Marriage, Husband, Wire

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• As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abbys of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Ego, Dawn

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• 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.

  Sylvia Plath

  Beautiful, Sleep, Tree

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.30, Hamilton Books

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• (Talks about her childhood) I grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Reading, PA. It was the most magical fun childhood. We had grape arbours and we would make jam with my mom. My dad would go to work and he'd come home. He'd clean out stalls and fix split-row fences.

  Taylor Swift

  Mom, Fun, Dad

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• 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.

  Lauren Oliver

  Sides, Feels

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

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Molotov Cocktail, Cocktails, Thrown

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.879, Scholastic Inc.

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• In my head I try and reach back, through the fence, past the smoke; I try and grab his hand and pull. Alex, come back. There is nothing to do but sink. The hours close around me, encase me completely, like a tomb.

  Lauren Oliver

  Past, Hands, Trying

  Lauren Oliver (2012). “Pandemonium”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.

  Tom Waits

  Sarcastic, Fence Post, Midget

  Song: The Piano Has Been Drinking

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• By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely nothing was uninteresting to him. His curiosity ranged from music to theology and from philosophy to history. He didn't simply know something about everything; he knew a great deal about everything.

  H. L. Mencken

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

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• Heaven and hell are not very distant, they are neighbors; only a small fence divides them. You can jump that fence, even without a gate. You go on jumping from this to that. In the morning you may be in heaven; by evening you are in hell. This moment heaven, that moment hell. It is just an attitude, just a state of your mind, just how you are feeling. Many times, in a single life, you may visit hell, and many times you may visit heaven. In a single day also.

  Rajneesh

  Morning, Attitude, Jumping

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• Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.

  Robert Herrick

  Sex, Disease, Abstinence

  Hesperides 'Abstinence'

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