Top 110 Fence Quotes

I was fourteen, watching ‘The Princess Bride‘ for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, ‘I want to learn to fence!’

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.

You try to – you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that’s where the – where the comedy is.

I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

SO when I got word from three different sets of people who all said Manson had cancer, I knew I couldn’t get straight info from his staff and had no choice but to go over the fence for it.

I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Don’t recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don’t recommend doing it alone.

Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.

Nothing creative functions well when fenced in or leaning on a prop. A contract is a fence and a prop.

We tied the milk crates on each end of the fence, and we had our own milk crate basketball pickup game, and it was a good time ’cause we could jump off the fence and dunk the basketball. You had to be creative in order to play, and I wanted to play.

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.

Not every pitch I swing at is going over the fence, but you’re going to miss every shot you don’t take.

Here’s what we know: after the Secure Fence Act, we have built 600 miles of wall and fencing on a 2,000 mile border. What that has done is not in any demonstrable way made us safer.

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

Viewers don’t want you to walk the fence – they do want a point of view – and that’s what we bring.

We need to know who’s in the United States. We need to know everyone who’s in the United States that comes in here from a foreign country. And we have to separate the ones who are dangerous from the ones who aren’t. To accomplish that, we need a fence. We need a technological fence. We need a border patrol.

I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you’re an idiot.

I used to go to Glastonbury when I was young back in the ’90s, back when you could jump the fence.

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.

It’s very difficult for me to explain myself. I used to park blocks away from NBC when I went to work there so I wouldn’t have to tell the gate-man who I was. He’d always repeat ‘Who?’ And I’d have to go through who I was again and where I was working. So I’d just park on the street and find a fence I could climb over.

When you reach across the aisle and open your heart and mind, you might just find that you have more in common than you think with the guy on the other side of the fence.

There’s nothing more fun than standing at the plate and hitting the ball really hard, see the ball go over the fence. It’s really a satisfying feeling. It always makes you feel like you’re doing your job.

If you’re even on the fence about hiring someone, that person is a no. You have to feel it in your gut.

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

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

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn’t part of America’s immigration process.

The suburbs have this veneer of happiness, you know? This veneer of the ideal life. From afar, it’s all together – white picket fence, nice house – but you peel away one little layer, and it all comes crumbling down.

When I was a kid I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn’t want to do. I didn’t want to grow up, have 2.2 kids, get married, the whole white picket fence thing.

I have yet to see someone attack Obama over his report card. A lot of people I talk to from both sides of the fence are like, ‘Well, what about this economy? What about these incidents?’ There are still no answers except time, but time is the answer for everything.

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

I think my strength as a performer is my ability to straddle the fence between comedy and tragedy.

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.

I just wanted to experience what it felt like on the other side of the fence. As we all know, the heels have the most fun out there in the ring.

My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they’ve taken aerial shots. They’ve gotten my address and put it on the Internet.

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

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

The thing I do remember the most of Wrestlemania, which was a high point for me, was Wrestlemania 1. The fact we made it over the fence. Then Wrestlemania 3. Bobby Heenan and myself coming back for Wrestlemania 17 and the gimmick battle royal. So many highlights, couldn’t possibly cover them all.

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

The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

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

With training for T20, I try to clear the fence a lot.

It would seem staggeringly arrogant to think we were the only ones in the universe, but at the same time, I don’t know if contact has been made yet or not because you think something like that would be hard to cover up. I’m still on the fence. I keep an open mind about all of these things.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I’m advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let’s not build a fence across the border.

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

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

It’s all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.

In New Orleans, where I’m from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.

After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis’s, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.

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

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

Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first band, and some kid climbed over the fence of my backyard and peeked his head in the window to see who was rocking. It was Slash.

Young players will run through a barbed wire fence for you.

I’m the wrong person to ask for advice when it comes to losing weight because I’ve never been on that side of the fence.

There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.

It’s super easy to do what Conor does. He earned something. Then, he looks over the fence – he looks for something new – and it’s very easy to be motivated for something new.

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.

I don’t think we can sit on the fence anymore. We have to make up our minds. And if one wants to choose the path of darkness, then so be it, but be conscious of what it is you’re doing.

I do get freaked out sometimes. I have kids hop my fence, get into my back yard, and just start screaming at me.

Many locals in east Africa are calling for fences to separate wildlife and people. They argue it will reduce conflict and also make it easier to protect the wildlife from poachers. From my experience in Tanzania, no fence and no militia will hold back the tide of poachers drawn by the huge sums of money at stake.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

The northern border is a different problem set than our southern border. We’re not going to put a fence between America and Canada, across Glacier Park. I grew up there. We can use some technological controls. We work with the Canadians more, and there’s a lot of property we share, along with tribal lands.

And I don’t believe that I have to stay on one side of the fence or the other. I don’t believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.

In this case we’re building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure.

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

I go for my shots with no regrets, even if I play to the fence.

The whole idea of a trade deal is to build a fence around participants inside and give them an advantage over the outside. So there’s a conceptual flaw in that, one of many conceptual flaws in NAFTA.

It’s just as easy for me to be building a fence somewhere and scraping by on unemployment in between doing a guest star spot. I’ve been there.

We do not build new Jewish communities in Samaria, Judea and Gaza. The United States has never accepted our building of communities or of the fence. Yet, I’ve managed to develop relations between Israel and the United States even though President Bush never supported settlements.

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

Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

I think anybody who likes Cardiacs, they tend to be quite evangelistic about them for obvious reasons. They’re not a band you can be on the fence about.

The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies and I would hop the fence and sneak on and play.

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television – always separately – has been violated to a pulp. Program content is seen increasingly as a mere backdrop on which ads are posted like billboards on a 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.

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

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

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.

The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out.

You might have a great fence, a great shoot, run, and swim, but you might get a dodgy horse. Each country supplies the horse; you get 20 minutes to warm up with it, and then you have to do the jumping course. Pentathlon’s difficult because everything has to come together.

When I was eight, my parents saved up to send me to private school, but I found it so tough that I often escaped through the back fence to walk the four miles to my father’s office in Windsor. I only lasted a few terms, but it didn’t curb my ambition.

I don’t think kids have a problem reading books meant for adults; the problem is on the other side of the fence, a misconception of what one kind of literature is ‘supposed‘ to be, perceived to be, as opposed to another: if it’s for kids, it can’t be any good; it’s got to have been dumbed down and/or sweetened up.

I write narrative nonfiction, creating lively scenes through action and the use of quotes from firsthand accounts, all based on rigorous research. If I say a character leaned against a fence on a windy day, than I have at least two sources to back up these details.

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

Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we’re not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

I think you start hitting home runs, and you start getting caught up in seeing how far you can hit them. They’re fun, but you really only have to hit them a foot over the fence. They all count the same.

My political career began on the other side of the fence from the liberal filmmaker Michael Moore – both literally and figuratively. As a young intern for the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign, I was tasked with attending a Moore rally four days before the general election.

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.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the ’50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

I own a ranch in Texas, so there’s always something to do as far as work goes, whether it’s tractor stuff or tearing down fence.

I’m in favor of building the fence, and doing everything technologically to protect our borders. But the other way to secure the border, and one of the things we must do, is put in place good guest-worker programs that employers can actually use.

Fences split up the territory that a hedgehog has to forage in so having a little hole in your fence could well enable it to move in and out of your garden.

If you’re lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you’re someone who’s got a family that’s all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that’s a very sad place to be.

I’m sorry – I know America is supposed to be the land of the dreams and hopes, but it’s like, when was that actually a real thing? I think from the very beginning it was all a lie, and it still kind of is. Stop trying to sell the picket fence, because there’s another backyard here that you haven‘t looked at.

The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there’s nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It’s the absolute cutoff point between man and nature.

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don’t take down the fence.

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.

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

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Great leaders are not proverbial fence sitters. They judge. They opine. They challenge. They fight for their vision.

If I know it’s going over the fence, I am going to start jogging and just get around the bases and get back in the dugout.

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.

I sort of ride the fence on that whole steroid era issue. I don’t have a definite opinion like some of my fellow Hall of Famers. Some of the guys were very, very adamant about a person being associated with steroids: ‘They’ll never be in the Hall of Fame. If they are, I’ll never come back.’

All I watch is war movies. The stories be touching… just to see what they go through on both sides of the fence.

We have the responsibility to protect our people and that’s why we’re building this fence. We’ve suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years.

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.

When I was a child, it was segregated, and I couldn’t go across a fence to certain parts of Gainesville.

I’ve always felt like a guy where the grass is greener on my side of the fence.

This is my 20th year in the sport. I’ve known swimming and that’s it. I don’t want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I’ll be 31. I’m looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

It’s time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.