I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
[Rose from "Fences"] couldn't just jump out there. Not just because of economic reasons but because how she was looked at in society at the time. There were a lot of factors that made you stay I guess.
I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
We are redefining terms and rewriting laws and removing fences everywhere you turn, and we seem to think we can do that with impunity.
If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House?
[A] private property regime makes people responsible for their own actions in the realm of material goods. Such a system therefore ensures that people experience the consequences of their own acts. Property sets up fences, but it also surrounds us with mirrors, reflecting back upon us the consequences of our own behavior.
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.
America needs fewer men obsessed with erecting fences of hate, suspicion and name calling.
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?
If they want to come out and watch me paint or dig potatoes or mend fences, I don't care. I don't do interviews not because I have anything to hide, but when you retire, the word has a meaning to me. It's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work. You develop an attitude where you can do what you please.
One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.
She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.
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.
[Fences] is just a great play to bring to the screen.
I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I would have made a very good bishop: nice housekeeper, nice clothes - god, the clothes.
There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep.
We all want to fix things. Just as we all believe that so much in life can be rectified. Mend fences, build bridges, reach out, engage in mutual healing.
Horse riding is a perfect comparison with singing. You must know where the double fences are.
That thought process that somehow other people have to be worse off in order for you to be better off does not work. People get on boats people jump fences to get away from that kind of thought process.
