Top 291 Picket Fences Quotes & Sayings

I had the blessing of opportunity. You need the folks in the boardroom who have consciences and the people in the streets who can picket at the right time.

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.

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

And thoughts of no other man but you could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind.

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.

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

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep.

And we carry onWhen our lives come undoneWe carry onCause there's promise in the morning sunWe carry onAs the dark surrenders to the dawnWe were born to overcomeWe carry onBeyond the picket fences and the oil wellsThe happy endings and the fairy talesIs the reality of shattered lives and broken dreamsWe carry on

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

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

The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979).

All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

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

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

I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

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

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

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

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.

Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.

My dad was a miner at South Kirkby colliery. He went on strike but he didn't go to the picket line, he just put his feet up and got in my mum's way.

The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer on the picket line, the stronger the commitment. A lot of workers think they make their commitment by walking off the job when nobody sees them. But you get a guy to walk off the field when his boss is watching and, in front of the other guys, throw down his tools and march right to the picket line, that is the guy who makes our strike. The picket line is a beautiful thing because it makes a man more human.

Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

It's funny, because even though on a drama like 'Picket Fences' those long monologues would stress me out, doing special effects where there's a green screen and there's nobody there to to react to and you have to recite all this dialogue, it's so much more difficult.

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

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

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.

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.

I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind of like to have just the white picket fence life if that makes sense.

In Greece, the picket line is forbidden.

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

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

By neglecting education, the 1974 Labour government failed as surely as on the picket lines of Grunwick.

When I was little, I didn't have dreams to be an actress or a star; I wanted to be a mom, have a house and a picket fence.

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

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action.

The first thing I did [in Michigan] was join a picket line of a pizzeria in Ann Harbor in 1963 that didn't allow African Americans to eat there.

In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

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

All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

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.

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.

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

I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.

Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do.

Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.

When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.

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.

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

Netanyahu must mend fences with Obama.

I've played hundreds of protests. I've marched on dozens of picket lines. I've strummed my guitar at innumerable demonstrations.

As a member of Westboro Baptist Church, I became a fixture on picket lines across the country.

I’d given up on the white picket fence after Kisten had died—finding out my kids would be demons was the nail in the coffin.

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

My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America as it’s supposed to be. But on the cherry tree there’s this pitch oozing out – some black, some yellow – and millions of red ants crawling all over it. I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

I’d like to have a nice home set up, with a couple of dogs, and a fence, white picket fence.

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

Like you see in the fairy tales, that's how it planned out in my head. Kids, little white picket fence, the American dream.