Fence Quotes - Page 18

• Because I could throw so hard when I got to college, they made me a pitcher. If I had to it all over again, I would have stuck to playing in the outfield. I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.

  Shemar Moore

  Running, College, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Quincy Jones

  Memories

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• I have yet to see someone attack Obama over his report card. A lot of people I talk to from both sides of the fence are like, 'Well, what about this economy? What about these incidents?' There are still no answers except time, but time is the answer for everything.

  Lupe Fiasco

  People, Cards, Answers

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

  Ted Nugent

  Rivers, America, Immigration

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• How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away. Nets and fences can be mirrors. And between the nets and fences, opponents are also mirrors. This is why the whole thing is scary. This why all opponents are scary and weaker opponents are especially scary. See yourself in your opponents. They will bring you to understand the Game. To accept the fact that the Game is about managed fear. That its object is to send from yourself what you hope will not return.

  David Foster Wallace

  Running, Mirrors, Games

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• When things go badly, individuals look for scapegoats. I just do not believe that barbed-wire fences or guns on our border will solve any of our problems.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Gun, Wire

  "Paul: Immigration not solved by barbed wire, guns" by Beth Fouhy, www.deseretnews.com. February 1, 2012.

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• There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say, oh, let's build a fence and be done with it, wipe our hands, it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.

  Rick Perry

  Reality, Hands, Ideas

  "Interview with Presidential Candidate Rick Perry". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 3, 2011.

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• This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

  Michael Phelps

  Birthday, Sports, Swimming

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• 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.

  Harold Prince

  Depressing, Believe, Ideas

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• My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on a big story with widespread public appeal, devote your best resources to it, say a quiet prayer, and swing for the fences.

  Graydon Carter

  Prayer, Ideas, Swings

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• 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, June, House

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• 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.

  Nicole Krauss

  Space, Tree, Gone

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.57, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Space, Adults

  "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2013.

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• At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them

  Shonda Rhimes

  Badass, Drawing, People

  "Grey's Anatomy / The First Cut Is the Deepest". 2005.

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• Life is not that simple. That is why it is called life. That word includes both lie and if. Time to figure out which side of the "half" fence you are on: Does your life include a lie or just one big if? There is nothing wrong with either to be honest, but it will make your Sundays longer.

  Corey Taylor

  Lying, Sunday, Simple

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• I shudder to think. I might wear lace collars and laugh flower petals and pearls. People might try to pat me. I see them think it. My height triggers the puppy-kitten reflex- Must touch-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

  Flower, Eye, Thinking

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• 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.

  Max Frisch

  Freedom, Party, Political

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• What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down

  Jim Morrison

  Knives, Dawn, Done

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• 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.

  Kim Harrison

  Kids, White, Nails

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

  Joe DiMaggio

  Baseball, Skills, Tests

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Dog, Eye, Fence Post

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• She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Wall, Doors, Desire

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• We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Broken, Desire, Wheat

  Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.31, Univ of California Press

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• A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is a thing separate from all other towns alike. And a town has a whole emotion. How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can call it over the fences.

  John Steinbeck

  Moving, Animal, Boys

  John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.477, Penguin

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• She liked to imagine him stealing a glimpse of her over the backyard fence, proudly watching his strange daughter daydream under the beech tree. Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Daughter, Father, Blue

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.85, Scholastic Inc.

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