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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

He was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall. — F Scott Fitzgerald

In order to understand more it is imperative that we improve our knowledge before choosing which side of the fence we feel compelled to belong, — J.P. Robinson

Silence is the fence around wisdom — Rabbi Akiva

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

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

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

You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world. — Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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

Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence. — Ben Aaronovitch

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible. — Silvan Shalom

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

What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides? — Homer

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

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

Fences are made for those who cannot fly. — Elbert Hubbard

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

I'm not the white-picket-fence kind of guy. So don't go building castles in the air. You'll get trapped in the rubble when they collapse. — Maureen Child

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

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life. — Dolly Parton

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

On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side. — Victoria Moran

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

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

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

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House? — Charles Krauthammer

I'm one of these people that always looks on the bad side of the fence. — Ozzy Osbourne

Someday somebody's going to come along and knock this old fence down. — Jacqueline Woodson

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

There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember. — Philip Dunne

Birthing hope from the madness
that perches on the fence
of our once perfect
dreams. — Jessica Kristie

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. — Foxy Brown

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

A fence to wisdom is silence. — Rabbi Akiva

-You gotta do your best to be the best, right? — Kasie West

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.

I thought about you often, the boy behind the fence, the boy on the outside...the boy who stole my first and only kiss — Tillie Cole

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

It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence. — Maggie Stiefvater

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

As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence. — Chuck Schumer

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

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

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence. — Lemuel K. Washburn

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

Yalena: Could you always open your door?
Kiki: Yes. Fence, too.
Yalena Why don't you?
Kiki: Hay sweet. Fresh water. Peppermints. — Maria V. Snyder

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

Basketball courts ringed with barbed-wire fence. — Donna Tartt

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

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

Although it was hard to tell, with bluegrass, wether or not they were supposed to sound like geese. — Sarah McCarry

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

Regaring Politics: You've got your cats on one side and your dogs on the other; someone has to walk the fence and feed the animals. - Kinky Friedman — Ray Palla

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

I thought I had escaped the monsters, that I'd left them locked up behind an electric fence. But the shadows were alive, and they had chased me here. — Alexandra Bracken

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

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

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

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. — Henry David Thoreau

The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react. — Edward Ball

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

Fence as far as the missing panel. Then he started to run toward it. Then he died. I swung the sap and hit him. But he didn't go — Lee Child

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

He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence. — Roger Clemens

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

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process. — Ted Nugent

I think I will always be the little girl with her nose pressed against the fence, waiting to be taken into the game. — Srividya Srinivasan

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

Even if you have the most perfect marriage ever known to man, the enemy will still try to tear down the fence and destroy it by one means or another. — Stormie O'martian

If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence. — James Woods

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

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision. — Napoleon Hill

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

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

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

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

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

Bruno was jealous, he had to wear stupid pants en shoes while the boys at the other side of the fence were wearing nice pyjamas al day long — John Boyne

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