The Fence can be a symbol of both protection and a true barrier to prevent yourself from growing. Inspirational fence quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.
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Famous Fence Quotes
Nothing creative functions well when fenced in or leaning on a prop. A contract is a fence and a prop. Van Heflin
It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions. Jim Rohn
Metal, I love metal sounds. If I have a stick with me, I just drag it across a fence. And all fences make different sounds, just like people when they laugh. Aurora
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. Maya Angelou
Fear is the highest fence. Dudley Nichols
A woman’s dress should be like a barbed wire fence serving its purpose without obstructing the view. Sophia Loren
I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon. Matt Dillon
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. Robert Frost
I do get freaked out sometimes. I have kids hop my fence, get into my back yard, and just start screaming at me. Deadmau5
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. Norman Vincent Peale
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
Love your neighbor as yourself but don’t take down your fence. Carl Sandburg
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. Sarah McLachlan
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered. Robert Fulghum
You try to you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that’s where the where the comedy is. Denis Leary
Fear is the highest fence. Dudley Nichols
Downhillers are going over 110 miles per hour. But no matter what, you can’t hit the fence at 100 miles per hour. Julia Mancuso
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out. J. R. R. Tolkien
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. Lindsey Vonn
Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, and therein stay. Mary Butts
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
Good fences make good neighbors. Robert Frost
As you ride in a steeplechase, and you’re on the horse, going quite fast, you think, That’s quite a big fence But trust the horse, and don’t give him any reason to doubt you. Victoria Pendleton
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. Will Rogers
You can’t stop demographics. And show me a fence that ever worked. It didn’t work at Hadrian’s Wall. The Great Wall of China didn’t work. The Berlin Wall. James Turrell
If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side. Ernie J Zelinski
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. Vernon Wells
Boundaries don’t keep other people out, they fence you in. Shonda Rhimes
I am the Internet guy. But the reason the Onion News Empire was such an easy decision to make is I so trust that side of the fence now. Jeffrey Tambor
Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision. Napoleon Hill
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. Stone Cold Steve Austin
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Great leaders are not proverbial fence sitters. They judge. They opine. They challenge. They fight for their vision. Gad Saad
Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help. Alex Haley
In our pugilistic take no prisoners era, preaching grace toward those on the other side of the political fence is decidedly countercultural. Kirsten Powers
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
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. Diana Penty
Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don’t allow you to advance, then you’re going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you’re going to be a success. Benjamin Carson
With training for T20, I try to clear the fence a lot. Steve Smith
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be. Robert Fulghum
I think my strength as a performer is my ability to straddle the fence between comedy and tragedy. Mariette Hartley
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. Ricky Steamboat
How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences like rags and shreds of your very life. Katherine Mansfield
I will support Ireland at rugby, but when England and Ireland are playing, I sit on the fence. Eoin Morgan
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. Dennis Miller
There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs. A. E. Housman
Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points. Texas Bix Bender
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
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
You must have been going very fast. I was, until I hit the fence. Anthony Horowitz
When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions. Morrie Schwartz
A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn’t climb over it. Arthur Baer
There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough. Richard Llewellyn
I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom. Bob Hawke
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. John Locke
If fences don’t work, why is there one around the White House? Charles Krauthammer
He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul. David Lloyd George
A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence and then go over and catch it. Dick Francis
A fence to wisdom is silence. Rabbi Akiva
Fear is the highest fence. Dudley Nichols
A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn’t climb over it. Arthur Baer
Fences are made for those who cannot fly. Elbert Hubbard
If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority. Felix Frankfurter
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. Lacey Chabert
If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors. Felix Frankfurter
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. Thomas Wolfe
I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another. Harry S. Truman
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. Steven Tyler
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
Someone’s always going to come down on the side of the fence. Morgan Freeman
Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill? Jesse Helms
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. Erich Maria Remarque
If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence. Julie Krone
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
And I’ve found that since you can’t electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer’s eyes. Laini Taylor
Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas. Vanna Bonta
I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did Fences. When you train, you can do anything. Marlon Wayans
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. Byron Dorgan
Someone’s always going to come down on the side of the fence. Morgan Freeman
The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man’s interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other. Reinhold Niebuhr
When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions. Morrie Schwartz
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. Sitting Bull
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade. Quincy Jones
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. Charles Schumer
A fence to wisdom is silence. Rabbi Akiva
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. Johnny Cash
Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them. Richard Engel
In baseball you hit your home run over the right field fence, the left field fence, the center field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base. Ken Harrelson
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
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. Sam Shepard
Good fences make good neighbors. Robert Frost
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. Silvan Shalom
Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house. Saddam Hussein
A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia. Phillip Noyce
In a world without fences, who needs Gates? Scott McNealy
The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of our own events, activities and preoccupations. The opportunity for a heroic gesture can tap you quietly on the shoulder in the midst of a holiday bustle. If you are attentive, you will notice the gentle touch and will be able to respond. Remember. There are no small acts of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world. Mary Anne Radmacher
