Fence Quotes - Page 3

• The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Enemy, Decided

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• I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Moving, Eyebrows, Bird

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• When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility.

  Christopher Bollen

  People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A fence can be protective around your family - a familial fence. Then, there are the people who only know how to take, to abuse, to offend and they build fences to keep you out. They don't have time to talk, they don't have kind words, they only talk about themselves. They never give an olive branch or forgiveness - they create a fence because of their personality or behavior and they want to create a barrier to keep people out.

  Russell Hornsby

  People, Giving, Personality

  Source: hollywoodlife.com

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• I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.

  Byron Dorgan

  Country, Believe, Fairness

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• I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

  Matt Dillon

  Dad, White, Wagons

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• So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Play, Two, House

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1994). “The Little House Book of Memories”, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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• Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

  Dogen

  Wall, Practice, Tree

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• Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

  Patricia Ireland

  Home, Reality, May

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• And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Hate, Real, Artist

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• I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

  George Takei

  People, Wire, Boyhood

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

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• The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Important, President, Signatures

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• Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Winning, Play, Giving

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• I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Don't recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don't recommend doing it alone.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  Feet, Squares, Splits

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• I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.

  Sammy Sosa

  Nice, Swinging For The Fences, Swings

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• I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

  Phil Donahue

  War, World, Remember

  "Phil Donahue: “We Have an Emergency in the Media and We Have to Fix It”". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 24, 2005.

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• I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue.

  Duncan Hunter

  Thinking, Issues, Immigration

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• I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.

  Phillip Noyce

  People, Littles, Towns

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• My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet.

  Steven Tyler

  Taken, Home, People

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• As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.

  Charles Schumer

  School, Blow, Israel

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• How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

  Johnny Cash

  Men, Heaven, Hell

  Johnny Cash (1975). “MAN IN BLACK”

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• Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.

  Edward Abbey

  Balls, Retreat, Sides

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• He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.

  Robert Frost

  Apples, Tree, Neighbor

  "MendingWall" l. 25 (1914)

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• I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

  Lacey Chabert

  Dog, Flower, People

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

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• There is a cyclone fence between ourselves and the slaughter and behind it we hover in a calm protected world like netted fish, exactly like netted fish. It is either the beginning or the end of the world, and the choice is ourselves or nothing.

  Carolyn Forche

  Choices, Cyclones, World

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