Russell Hornsby Quotes

Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

Some people build fences to keep people out; some people build fences to keep people in.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry.

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

Something there is that does not love a wall.

Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.

Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.

The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.

The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him.

The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings.

People choose to shut themselves off and build a load of defense mechanisms and not let anybody in because it's easier that way. You don't get hurt, and there's less risk involved if you build this hard shell.

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.

Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people, new places, different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work.

Thou shalt not take moochers into thy hut?

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

The walls of pride are high and wide, can't see over to the other side.

The greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another

Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions.

All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.