Top 206 Fences Quotes & Sayings

We are redefining terms and rewriting laws and removing fences everywhere you turn, and we seem to think we can do that with impunity.

It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.

In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.

A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.

Netanyahu must mend fences with Obama.

Fences would be a hindrance to terrorists should they decide to come across a land border between the U.S. and Mexico and to California.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

'Fences' is under the headline of the project of my lifetime. It is the most perfect and undeniably developed narrative that I've ever worked on.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

Everyone gives 'Picket Fences' credit for being so willing to delve into issues that now would be no big deal. But it was then. It was ahead of its time.

Too many of the organizations I have observed resemble a farm in Kansas. They have lots of fences and silos as well as a storm cellar.

He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.

[Movie "Fences"] is more than holds up today. We have had a tremendous response at the screenings.

She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.

Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.

Creeds are definitions of what it means to be a Christian. They are fences that, albeit imperfectly, seek to separate sheep from goats.

If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."

In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away. Nets and fences can be mirrors. And between the nets and fences, opponents are also mirrors. This is why the whole thing is scary. This why all opponents are scary and weaker opponents are especially scary. See yourself in your opponents. They will bring you to understand the Game. To accept the fact that the Game is about managed fear. That its object is to send from yourself what you hope will not return.

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep.

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.

Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.

In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?

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

If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.

One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.

Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements and five clusters, if they practice sincerely they attain enlightenment. Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. This is because the four elements and five clusters and plants, trees, fences and walls are fellow students; because they are of the same essence, because they are the same mind and the same life, because they are the same body and the same mechanism.

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.

Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.

Without 'Twin Peaks,' there would have been no 'Northern Exposure,' 'Picket Fences,' 'X-Files' or 'Alias.' It started the movement of 'off-center' television.

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

There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.

Trump is a raptor testing the fences, and he found weaknesses to escape and try things that would work, every single day.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

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

You'll see some great performances [in Fences]. And I'm not just saying that because I directed it either! You'll see!

When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word.

Some people build fences to keep people out and we also do things everyday to keep people close - when we play ball and go fishing with our kids, we are doing it to keep them close and fenced in. That's how relationships are built positively - we're using fences to tell people that we love them.

I think it modern society as a whole, but definitively in Brazil, spaces are so well divided and there are so many barriers, and so many divisions, so many lines and so many borderlines, basically telling you that you should be here but not here. This is my space and this is your space, and this is expressed very dramatically in architecture, we have a very kind of aggressive, almost medieval concept for architecture, which is basically keeping people out. So you get high walls, fences, and electric fences, and divisions like that.

Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.

I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.'

The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings.

Back when I was young, lists seemed like fences on the open range. But secretly, I was pleased to be corralled among other literary thoroughbreds.

[Fences] is just a great play to bring to the screen.

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.

America needs fewer men obsessed with erecting fences of hate, suspicion and name calling.

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

I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

While some livestock farms are much better than others, there are none in this country that look like natural ecosystems. Nature has no fences.

Friendship means only one thing: you don't create fences around you, but try to remove fences from the life of another person.

Some people build fences to keep people out; some people build fences to keep people in.

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.

Horse riding is a perfect comparison with singing.You must know where the double fences are.

Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision.