On The Fence Quotes

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.

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

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.

Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet.

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.

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.

Of course the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Why do you think the neighbors put up the fence?

Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.

An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth - without a fence around it.

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.

You could be in the gutter and fall in love with someone, and you feel great. That's my honest opinion. I've witnessed both sides of that fence and being in love is where it's at.

Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.

If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill.

Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.

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

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

Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.

Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.

I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.

If there is a fence and you don't know its purpose, don't just assume there isn't one and tear it down. Find out what the fence is intended to accomplish. You might see it needs to stay.

This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.

The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built.

Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.

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

I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'

Every politician must be able to keep both feet on the fence with his ear to the ground.

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

Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence, as one, disturb me to tears this autumn dusk.

Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror.

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.

You have a 12-foot fence. You know what'll happen? Thirteen foot ladders.

I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence.

One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the things he takes down with him there, where the easement runs along the back fence.

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?

I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.

Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help.

When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.

I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.

Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.

A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.

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.

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

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.

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

The best way to catch a horse is to build a fence around it.