Fence Quotes - Page 8

• Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Garden, Evil

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• Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I?

  Tim Finn

  Mistake, Men, Thinking

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• I was a better builder than a manager. I'd rather focus on maximizing the opportunities swinging for the fences than minimizing the risk with bunts and singles.

  Steve Case

  Opportunity, Swinging For The Fences, Focus

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• If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff.

  Denis Parsons Burkitt

  Fall, People, Disease

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• Like many men, I can never find anything that I'm looking for, even when I'm actually looking at it. In a fridge, I think milk is actually invisible to the male eye. And so, it turns out, are dirty great holes in the fence.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Dirty, Eye, Men

  "Not fair – donkeys get all the breaks" by Jeremy Clarkson, www.thetimes.co.uk. September 6, 2009.

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• Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.

  Anthony Trollope

  Fall, Chance, Enough

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works”, p.141, 谷月社

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• Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.

  Mark Helprin

  Death, Prayer, Pain

  Mark Helprin (1991). “A Soldier of the Great War”, Harcourt

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• To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

  Mark Van Doren

  Freedom, Mean, Effort

  Mark Van Doren (1960). “Morning worship: and other poems”

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• Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me in Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Send me off forever but I ask you please Don't fence me in

  Cole Porter

  Country, Land, Sky

  Song: Don't Fence Me In

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• I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in

  Cole Porter

  Moon, Looks, Want

  "Don't Fence Me In" (song) (1944)

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• A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run.

  Robert Jordan

  Running, Trying, Foxes

  Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, Maria Simons (2015). “The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series”, p.420, Macmillan

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• In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.

  Anthony Mackie

  Dog, Kids, Average

  "Anthony Mackie Interview THE HURT LOCKER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 23, 2009.

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• The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Kids, White, Guy

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

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• On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.

  Victoria Moran

  Two, Issues, Abortion

  "Abortion and Reverence for Life: Grappling with My Father’s ‘Other Job’" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2011.

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• Words slip into a language the way white-green vines slide between slats in a fence.

  Tim Seibles

  White, Vines, Green

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• Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

  Terry Pratchett

  Confused, Nice, Mean

  "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

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

  Ronnie Van Zant

  Philosophy, Whole

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• I'm a tomboy at the end of the day, so anything that causes me to have to run around, fight people, roll in the dirt, hop a fence - I'm all for it. So I really would love to do an action film.

  Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

  Running, Fighting, People

  "One on One with Emayatzy Corinealdi of 'Middle of Nowhere'". Interview with Jasmin Tiggett, www.indiewire.com. September 26, 2012.

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• To most of you, your neighbor is a stranger, a guy with a barkin' dog and a high fence around him. Now you can't be a stranger to any guy that's on your own team. So tear down the fence that separates you. Tear down the fence and you'll tear down a lot of hates and prejudices. Tear down all the fences in the country and you'll really have teamwork.

  Robert Riskin

  Teamwork, Country, Dog

  "Fictional character: Long John Willoughby/John Doe". "Meet John Doe", 1941.

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

  Jesse Helms

  Zoos, Hills, Chapel Hill

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• But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence.

  Jeannette Walls

  Giving, Silence, Tree

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  What Matters, Two, Smell

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”

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• Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All you have to do is design. You don’t have to be a botanist; you don’t have to be a bulldozer driver; you don’t have to be a fence builder; you don’t have to be an architect. What the designer has to do is look at the relationships.

  Bill Mollison

  Worry, Design, Looks

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• Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help.

  Hank Aaron

  Baseball, Balls, Helping

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• The passion, the competitiveness, the swinging for the fences, it adds up.

  Donny Deutsch

  Passion, Winning, Swinging For The Fences

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