Robert Frost Quotes

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

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

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

Something there is that does not love a wall.

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 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.

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

I don't want to detach. I don't want to go live in a gated community.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.

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.

A good marriage shuts out a very great deal.

Nobody intends to put up a wall!

The wall around the window does not create two worlds.

They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?