Robert Frost Quotes

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

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.

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

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

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Let's not build a wall around ourselves just when they're coming down all over the world.

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.

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

We're not in the business of putting up barriers; that's the job of politicians. They're the idiots who want to build walls between people.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

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

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

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

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

I've been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven't considered that they're also penning us in.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

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

We are two nations.

No fence has ever been able to stop history, much less a border fence…. A 10 foot fence only takes an 11 foot ladder to scale it.

Clearly, on a visceral human front, I oppose any wall, anywhere, between any people - period.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.