Fence Post Quotes

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

  Tom Waits

  Sarcastic, Midget, Posts

  Song: The Piano Has Been Drinking

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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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• 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

  Envelopes, Skinny, Hollywood

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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, Tree

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• Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.

  Bum Phillips

  Football, Nfl, Dumb

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• He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce.

  Fintan O'Toole

  Insult, Week, Railway Station

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• God ultimately raises up leaders for one primary reason: His glory. He shows His power in our weakness. He demonstrates His wisdom in our folly. We are all like a turtle on a fence post. If you walk by a fence post and see a turtle on top of it, then you know someone came by and put it there. In the same way, God gives leadership according to His good pleasure.

  Matt Chandler

  Turtles, Giving, Leader

  Matt Chandler, Eric Geiger, Josh Patterson (2012). “Creature of the Word”, p.176, B&H Publishing Group

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• Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

  Ian Frazier

  Russia, Phones, Light

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