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

He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.

I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.

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

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

On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.

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

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

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

I will support Ireland at rugby, but when England and Ireland are playing, I sit on the fence.

When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.

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

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

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

[Movie "Fences"] is more than holds up today. We have had a tremendous response at the screenings.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.

he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.

It [Border fence] hasn't worked. What has worked is more border patrols... What has worked is some technology.

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

Downhillers are going over 110 miles per hour. But no matter what, you can't hit the fence at 100 miles per hour.

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

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

There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.

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.

As a pundit, it's important to tell the viewer something they might not know, be unbiased and not sit on the fence.

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

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.

There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember.

You'll see some great performances [in Fences]. And I'm not just saying that because I directed it either! You'll see!

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.

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.

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.

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.'

Like you see in the fairy tales, that's how it planned out in my head. Kids, little white picket fence, the American dream.

It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?

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

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

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

If you're on the fence about speaking your truth or sharing your world with a greater audience, don't be. We need each other badly.

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.

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