(221 quotes found)
“More than 3 million square miles of territory to protect, 10 thousand miles of border to guard and a fence to build 10, 11 or 12 miles high. It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.”
Gen Ben Chidlaw
“He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul”
David Lloyd George
“There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“Don't whiz on the electric fence”
American Proverb
“There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.”
William Penn
“You have to erect a fence and say, ''Okay, scale this.''”
Linda Ronstadt
“A bikini is like a barbed-wire fence. It protects the property without obstructing the view.”
Joey Adams
“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
“Sitting on the fence”
Proverb
“The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.”
English Proverb