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Thought of the way a tree will keep on growing after a fence is wired around its trunk. The unbelievable force of that expansion. And I let her go. — Barbara Kingsolver

The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch. — Joe DiMaggio

It is always a mistake to curse back openly at those who are stronger than you unless there is a fence between. — Margaret Atwood

A bikini is like a barbed-wire fence. It protects the property without obstructing the view. — Joey Adams

Instead of getting a soft fence against the cold, shadowy, unapplausive audience of his life, had he only given it a more substantial presence? — George Eliot

Look outside the window. Do you see the fence outside the palace? Do you see any guards? This is a country where everyone is safe. — Alexander Lukashenko

A fence can protect you from cows but not from tanks! In life, there is no complete shield. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom. — Bob Hawke

To give you an idea how bad the American economy is, Mexico is now calling for a fence along the border. Stay on your side! — Jay Leno

I always thought it was a goat that kicked me over the fence. My mama told me the other day it was a cow. Now I'm sort of scared of both. — Kelsea Ballerini

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. — Robert Ardrey

Threw a fence up and called it the Bronx Zoo. — Richard Price

Fear doesn't stop at a fence — Karen Braucher

A black pit bull barreled against the fence, jaws dripping with saliva, viciously barking like Old Yeller after the hydrophobia kicked in. — Chris Fabry

Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points. — Texas Bix Bender

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help. — Alex Haley

Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill? — Jesse Helms

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. — Fintan O'Toole

I admire politicians. It is a really tough assignment, and I would fall at the first fence. — Joanna Lumley

Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, and therein stay. — Mary Butts

Words slip into a language the way white-green vines slide between slats in a fence. — Tim Seibles

Its not greener on the other side of the fence, its just a different shade of brown over there. Be happy with who you are and where you are in life. — D. Alyce Domain

It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others? — E. M. Forster

You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter? — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Every day now, I found a chance to slip outside and leave food under the fence. I knew it was a drop in the ocean, but I could not do nothing. — Irene Gut Opdyke

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. — Sophia Loren

Before long four dozen balls lay scattered at the base of the fence, a harvest of dirty white fruit. — Chad Harbach

In a world without fences, who needs Gates? — Scott McNealy

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

Mallory Quinn was sweet, warm, and caring. She was a white picket fence and two-point-four kids. She was a diamond ring. She was someone's keeper. — Jill Shalvis

A fence to wisdom is silence. — Rabbi Akiva

Most successful one was that of tarring his fence all around; after which, if a slave was caught — Frederick Douglass

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. — William Wrigley Jr.

UNTRUSTWORTHINESS is a viewpoint.
Depends which side of the fence you are viewing from! — Deeba Salim Irfan

Elvis walked over and signed a few autographs over the fence. They were screaming. I had never seen this. — Minnie Pearl

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first. — Mark Twain

He cracked his crooked smile that made all women swoon except the ones who wanted to slap him. Faye was a fence-sitter on the subject. — Sarah Scheele

If my wheel comes off and I hit the fence real hard, I get to whack every damn one of you with a hammer. — Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Fence your mind against negative thoughts;
build a high wall against evil ones. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

... With a slight miscalculated leap cleared to the iron picket fence. Put the fear of God into me, picket fences and balls don't mix. — J.P. Donleavy

They'll never build a fence high enough or a wall thick enough to keep freedom out. — Marty Rubin

I felt sorry when I came to the last page. I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print the way you crawl through a fence. — Sylvia Plath

I can attempt to stay on the fence. However, the problem is that the fence is a figment of my fear not a reality of my journey. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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

With trembling eyes, Like a caged bird, From behind the picket-fence, She watched you go. — Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade. — Quincy Jones

Simply building a fence between a child and temptation is not the same things as preparing him to face life. — Barbara R. Duguid

His clothes, the way he talks, and everything else about him. I think he doesn't fence with a straight blade, if you catch me meanin'. — Christina Daley

Age is a limit we impose upon ourselves. You know, each time you Westerners celebrate your birthday you build another fence around your minds. — Robert Riskin

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

prickly pears from behind a barbed-wire fence. Faded lettering on the sign, designed as a lasso that had at one — John J. Asher

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in. — Arthur Brisbane

The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence. — Akiva Ben Joseph

The woman must look like the weathered side of a rotted fence post if she had to get a man this way. — Lindsey Brookes

The problem is, if El Chapo builds a tunnel under the fence, we need to deal with that too. — Marco Rubio

Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced; it also imprisons the protected. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Now I was surprised and light-headed, like a domestic fowl that finds itself able to fly over a low fence in a moment of terror. — Charles Portis

Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me. — Bum Phillips

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

I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another. — Harry S. Truman

Skinny as a fence post. — Anne Tyler

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

In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue. — Lee Iacocca

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. — Robert Frost

India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems, — Jawaharlal Nehru

we leaned against the fence, basking in what passed for normal with us. A werewolf pack in my back yard, a wizard grilling steaks, — Ben Reeder

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

The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters. — Peter Yarrow

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. — Karen Marie Moning

Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's. — Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. — H.L. Mencken

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

So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity. — Carew Papritz

A real mother throws her heart over the fence and then climbs after it. — Miranda July

Like the pickets in a fence outside a — Anonymous

If a sentence were a picket fence, the serial commas would be posts at regular intervals. — Anonymous

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it. — Arthur Baer

What memoir of childhood doesn't at some point turn on the scent of a sweet pea or a freshly cut lawn or a boxwood hedge, to leap the fence of years? — Michael Pollan

In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. — Gary Ross

Put a little fence around it! — Breehn Burns

We are a nation of fence-sitters, face-flatterers and back-biters. — Khushwant Singh

The sky," he wrote on his slate, "is my living room. The woods are my parlor. The lonely lake is my bath. I can't remain behind a fence all my life. — E.B. White

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

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

It's plain that a fence is of no consequence, If the ambulance works in the valley. — Joseph Malins

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. — Max Frisch

A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post. — Tom Waits

Life is full of risks. But if you try to build a fence around all your fears, you'll shut out joy too. — Dorothy Love

The dog proved to be as dumb and stubborn as a mud fence, so Stranahan had named him Strom. — Carl Hiaasen

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.' — Aretha Franklin

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

Whether it's death or life or a fence, you see things how you choose to see them. — Laura Lee Gulledge

When he smiled his teeth looked like a picket fence that a tornado had wrecked. — Carolyn Brown

Satan may build a hedge about us and fence us in and hinder our movements, but he cannot roof us in and prevent our looking up. — Hudson Taylor

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

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

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

If I could be small again, Monique told me at the playground's fence, slurring her words and watching Caitlin sob, I'd want to have a friend like her. — E.R. Frank