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  • I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

    Fire   White   Giving  
    Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.245, Penguin
  • My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.

    Dream   Years   Sea  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.

  • Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

    Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. October 21, 1998.
  • If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.

  • My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America as it’s supposed to be. But on the cherry tree there’s this pitch oozing out – some black, some yellow – and millions of red ants crawling all over it. I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

  • And we carry onWhen our lives come undoneWe carry onCause there's promise in the morning sunWe carry onAs the dark surrenders to the dawnWe were born to overcomeWe carry onBeyond the picket fences and the oil wellsThe happy endings and the fairy talesIs the reality of shattered lives and broken dreamsWe carry on

    Morning   Dark   Reality  
  • Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

    Dennis Lehane (2010). “Shutter Island”, p.89, Hachette UK
  • In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

    Doe   World   Want  
    "Interview: Gary Ross breathes his life into 'Pleasantville'". www.cnn.com. October 12, 1998.
  • Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do.

    Wall   Women   Healthy  
  • Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not.

    White   Needs   Culture  
    "Tom Brady Talks Modeling, Kids & His Similarities To Gisele". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2009.
  • I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

  • After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go, if they become like shadows, if they fade away when they disappear from your life. The only thing I could see was the broken picket fence. The only sound I could hear was the cry of birds being killed in the night.

    School   Home   Night  
  • All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.

  • When you have a young kid you can't go out much at night, so I spent a lot of time at home, watching movies and cooking dinner with my wife. It felt like what most people experience. White picket fence stuff.So there was some enjoyment of that normalcy, but I have to admit that part of me missed the chaos of touring. I think it's about balance.

    Home   Kids   Night  
    Source: www.themetropolist.com
  • Good fences make good neighbors.

    "MendingWall" l. 25 (1914)
  • Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

    Chuck Eddy (2011). “Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism”, p.205, Duke University Press
  • I’d given up on the white picket fence after Kisten had died—finding out my kids would be demons was the nail in the coffin.

    Kids   White   Nails  
  • Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.

  • So it seems that because of every syndrome and disorder we've invented in the past twenty years, the Los Angeles Times reported that 63% of American families are now considered dysfunctional. My God! That means we're the majority. We're normal! It's the people who have the mommy, the daddy, the brother, the sister, the little white picket fence - those people are the freaks, man!

    Brother   Mean   Past  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.

  • I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

    Dad   White   Wagons  
  • I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind of like to have just the white picket fence life if that makes sense.

    Drama   White   Creating  
    FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Feb 01, 2017
  • I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

    Dream   June   House  
  • I’d like to have a nice home set up, with a couple of dogs, and a fence, white picket fence.

    Dog   Couple   Nice  
    "Martin Starr’s Star Turn". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 21, 2012.
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