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Quotes About Fences

Astrodome's fences were moved in. Would the team, as currently composed, do better or worse in a smaller, more hitter-friendly park? Cramer ran the numbers—showing the relative propensity of the Astros versus their opponents to hit long pop flies—and told Rosen, "Sorry, if
~ Michael Lewis
The trees and shrubs rear white arms to the sky on every side; and where were walls and fences, we see forms stretching in frolic gambols across the dusky landscape, as if Nature had strewn her fresh designs over the fields by night as models for man's art.
~ Henry David Thoreau
These are human issues. These are human stories. I think that's why 'Fences' has been able to resonate and been able to hit so many people over the years because it is just that. You can't run away from the racial specifics of it, but that's just a part of it.
~ Russell Hornsby
The lodgings were on the top floor next to the well-guarded premises of a respectable dealer in stolen property because, as Granny had heard, good fences make good neighbours.
~ Terry Pratchett
The lodgings were on the top floor next to the well-guarded premises of a respectable dealer in stolen property because, as Granny had heard, good fences make good neighbors.
~ Terry Pratchett
When I talk about religions, I am referring to the wonderful spiritual wisdom and traditions, not to the man-made edicts and rules that were promulgated for political reasons and which serve to separate people rather than to unify them. We must be careful to differentiate spiritual truths from politically motivated rules. Such rules are fences, keeping us fearful and apart.
~ Brian L. Weiss
Obnoxious smart-ass. Never been anywhere, never done anything, huh. Arrested development, huh. Considering that it was coming from a man who spent his nights peeing on his neighbors' fences, that was rich. Shoot, I should've told him that.
~ Ilona Andrews
The fences that protect the public interest seem to be fast disappearing, while the ones that restrict our liberties keep multiplying.
~ Naomi Klein
There was dew on the flaccid wires of the fences and magpies were strung along them like beads.
~ Tim Winton
I thought about all the fences that get built in this world - the ones that divide folks and tear them up, like the actions of the Kaiser and his henchmen, and the ones that bring folks closer together, like this stretch of fence Karl Mueller had build for me.
~ Kirby Larson
Apart from social media, the fences around our homes are a great cause of social isolation.
~ KIZZA RONALD
so serene, so fun of common purpose; I should have been a man, I·would. not have grown up so· sour, I would have spent my days in the sun doing whatever it. is that men do, digging holes, building fence.s, counting sheep. ·What is there for me in the. kitchen?
~ J.M. Coetzee
humans began to erect fences to protect their property from the wild. Some of these fences were actual ones, like corrals, and some were symbolic, like the Jewish faith's sanctioning human dominion over all of Earth's creatures, and, later, the Christian faith's decreeing that humans had souls but animals didn't.
~ Ted Kerasote
'Fences' is under the headline of the project of my lifetime. It is the most perfect and undeniably developed narrative that I've ever worked on.
~ Viola Davis
It means that greed and jealousy continue to rule the world, and people spend their substance building fences to keep the rest of the world out.
~ Upton Sinclair
Australia was a very different world and culture from the one I left in Europe. Life was much more spread out. People drove everywhere. They built higher fences. Neighbours didn't interact so much.
~ Andreja Pejic
Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision.
~ Denzel Washington
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
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
I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.
~ Marlon Wayans
A number of the wrought-iron fences that encircled the courtyards and gardens of the homes were painted the color of gold on their European-inspired spikes and finials.
~ David Baldacci
His great carved wooden head was marked with a black eye that was more yellow than black and from this spectacular bed of bruised flesh the eye itself, sand irritated, bloodshot, as wild as a currawong's, stared out at a landscape in which the tops of fences protruded from windswept sand.
~ Peter Carey
What else will do except faith in such a cynical, corrupt time? When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word.
~ Garrison Keillor
You think the whole electrical system is fried?" Chuck said, "Good possibility." "That would mean fences." Chuck picked up an apple as it floated onto his foot. He went into a windup and kicked his leg and fired it into the wall. "Stee-rike one!" He turned to Teddy. "That would mean fences, yes.
~ Dennis Lehane