Fence Quotes - Page 8

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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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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I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more when he laughs, it adds some thing to his fragment of life.

Laurence Sterne

Men, Ill Health, Evil

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Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.

Jay Griffiths

People, Excess, Spirit

"Call of the wild" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2007.

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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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...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.

Albion Fellows Bacon

Memories, Compassion, Curves

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That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link fence and you could be on the other side and they could be trying to get to you and six feet down could be an open door and they will not go through that door in the fence. That's why they're so scary.

Max Brooks

Thinking, Doors, Feet

"'I’m Just A Zombie Nerd' The Max Brooks Interview, Part One". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. July 15, 2010.

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

Ronnie Van Zant

Philosophy, Whole

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I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

Heidi Klum

White, Perfect, Modern Woman

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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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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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That thought process that somehow other people have to be worse off in order for you to be better off does not work. People get on boats people jump fences to get away from that kind of thought process.

Marco Rubio

Order, People, Doe

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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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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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Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.

Shirley Henderson

Children, Class, Play

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

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

Donny Deutsch

Passion, Winning, Swinging For The Fences

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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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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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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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I think that we did a really good thing when we elected Barack Obama. I read his books. He is absolutely and totally qualified for the job. He's proven himself to be not only qualified for the job, but very good at it. The things that he's managed to get accomplished in the face of so much push-back is amazing, and I think - this is Morgan Freeman's personal thought - we're going to be in a lot of trouble if we don't reelect him, because the people on the other side of the fence scare me.

Morgan Freeman

Jobs, Book, Thinking

"Actor Morgan Freeman, Part 1". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. June 19, 2012.

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