Robert Frost Quotes

Something there is that does not love a wall.

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

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

Good fences make good neighbors.

The country was made without lines of demarcation and it is nobody's business to create them.

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

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.

Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.

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

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

You need to separate the fans and the players.

Keeping families and friends divided is unforgivable.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

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

It's amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.

Only ways you can keep folks hating is to keep them apart and separated from each other.

Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.

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

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

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

A fence can be protective around your family - a familial fence. Then, there are the people who only know how to take, to abuse, to offend and they build fences to keep you out. They don't have time to talk, they don't have kind words, they only talk about themselves. They never give an olive branch or forgiveness - they create a fence because of their personality or behavior and they want to create a barrier to keep people out.

I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.

'The difficulty with this conversation,' said Arthur after a sort of pondering look had crawled slowly across his face like a mountaineer negotiating a tricky outcrop, 'is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.'