Fence Quotes - Page 2

• Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

  Alex Haley

  Funny, Animal, Turtles

  "A Touch of Class" by Carol Vanderheyden, (p. 60), 2003.

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• We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

  Richard Paul Evans

  Stronger, Locks, Building

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• Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

  Kevin Spacey

  Inspirational, Success, House

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• Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wall, Knowing, Depth

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.117, Library of Alexandria

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• The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Death, Want, Foolish

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• There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.

  Richard Llewellyn

  Memories, Gone, Remember

  Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.

  Arthur Baer

  Funny, Hiking, Your Smile

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• A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Animal, Democracy

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

  Shonda Rhimes

  People, Boundaries, Drawing The Line

  "Grey's Anatomy: The First Cut Is the Deepest". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Children, Simple

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• Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.

  Benjamin Carson

  Softball, Looks, Obstacles

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• He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

  David Lloyd George

  Sarcastic, Iron, Long

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

  Vanna Bonta

  Ideas, Growth, Ridicule

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• If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Your Side, Trying

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• Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Weakness, Borders

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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

  Looks, Way, Absurd

  Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Humor, Race

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• The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

  Robert Fulghum

  Water, Care, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.160, Ivy Books

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• All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Love, Wall, Home

  Thomas Wolfe (1999). “Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth”, p.344, Simon and Schuster

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

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Persons, Ifs, Bounds

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). “The First Circle”

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• There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

  William Faulkner

  Horse, Jumping, Feel Good

  "Visit to Two-Finger Typist". LIFE magazine, July 14, 1961.

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• But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

  Wim Wenders

  Thinking, Would Be, Cinema

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• I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.

  Joel Madden

  Romantic, America, Gone

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

  Shemar Moore

  Running, People, Outfielders

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

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• 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!

  Alexander Herzen

  Development, Human Nature, Get Over

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