Fences Quotes

• When one observes the nightmare of the desperate efforts made by hundreds of thousands of people struggling to escape from the socialized countries of Europe, to escape over barbed-wire fences, under machine-gun fire-one can no longer believe that socialism, in any of its forms, is motivated by benevolence and by the desire to achieve men’s welfare.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • People
  • Believe
  • Men

• Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • House
  • Death
  • Success

• If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, 'good fences make good neighbors.'

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Good
  • Church
  • Fences

• I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Amazing
  • Theater
  • Washington

• 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.

  

  Duncan Hunter
  • People
  • Fence
  • Fences

• When I walked out on the mound, I felt enclosed. You see, I'd been used to playing on pastures, where when somebody hit a ball you had to stop it from rolling. Well, this field had fences around it.

  

  Ted Lyons
  • You
  • Stop
  • Where

• 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.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Good
  • Together
  • Pretty

• Getting up at four in the morning to tend the farm while the world is quiet - feeding animals, mucking stalls, gathering eggs, filling water troughs, checking fences, letting animals out into the field - is a high point to my day.

  

  Chip Gaines
  • Up
  • World
  • High

• Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry.

  

  Duncan Hunter
  • Work
  • Fences

• I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • People
  • Nice
  • Contact

• What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

  

  Alexander Herzen
  • She
  • Power
  • Nature

• Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians.

  

  George Crook
  • Fences

• I always approach every play based on the cast. When Denzel and I did 'Fences,' I didn't go to rehearsals and say, 'OK, James Earl Jones did a wonderful job in '87. Let me see if you can come close to James Earl Jones.'

  

  Kenny Leon
  • Job
  • Fences

• I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• I have mended fences with both my sisters. But do I have their families on my side? Not easily. My one sister, Florence, has two lawyers in the family and two doctors. Of course, I couldn't win that battle.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Family
  • Win
  • Sister

• Every sport has its dangers. I've been pretty lucky, knock on wood. But I've had really confident, brave and smart horses growing up, which I think is important when you're young. You are working with massive animals over big fences, and especially at this top level, there is really no room for error.

  

  Jessica Springsteen
  • Up
  • Important
  • Pretty

• There, by the starlit fences,The wanderer halts and hearsMy soul that lingers sighingAbout the glimmering weirs.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Soul
  • Fences

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

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Trying
  • Wisdom
  • Fences

• I take the work seriously. Which is why I always swing for the fences whenever I voice a character. But that said, I don't take myself all that seriously.

  

  Jim Cummings
  • Work
  • Why
  • Character

• I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Back
  • Saturday
  • Season

• Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

  

  Dogen
  • Practice
  • Enlightenment
  • Fences

• 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

  

  Cole Porter
  • Moon
  • Fence
  • Fences

• And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention.

  

  Donald Miller
  • God
  • Long
  • Earth

• It was a big thing for me to read black writers. 'Fences,' by August Wilson. James Baldwin's 'Amen Corner.' 'The Fire Next Time.' 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X,' of course.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Time
  • Black
  • Fire

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