Fences Quotes

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Good
  • Church
  • Fences

• 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
  • Death
  • House
  • Success

• 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

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

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Trying
  • Wisdom
  • Fences

• Listen. I may not be much, but I'm all I've got. Maybe you need a magnifying glass to find my face in my high school graduation photo. Maybe I haven't got any family or friends. Yes, yes, I know all that. But, strange as it might seem, I'm not entirely dissatisfied with life... I feel pretty much at home with what I am. I don't want to go anywhere. I don't want any unicorns behind fences.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Listen

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Bad

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Soul
  • Fences

• 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

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

  

  Duncan Hunter
  • Work
  • Fences

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

  

  Dogen
  • Practice
  • Enlightenment
  • Fences

• Harper wants to mend fences with Bush. I think it's a mistake for the country, and I regret that it's happening after so much work has been done.

  

  Alan Young
  • Work
  • Country
  • Done

• 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 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

• 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

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

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Back
  • Season
  • Saturday

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