Quotes with walls

  • Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
  • Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
  • Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

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  • Helen Rowland ''Home'' is any four walls that enclose the right person.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • C. S. Lewis A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
    Source: The problem of pain p. 41
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Carl Sandburg Lay me on an anvil, O God.
    Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.
    Let me pry loose old walls.
    Let me lift and loosen old foundations.
    Source: Prayers of Steel (1920)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • André Malraux An art book is a museum without walls.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Caleb Cushing And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Mervyn Peake Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.
    Mervyn Peake
    English author and illustrator (1911 - 1968)
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  • Richard Burton False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
    Richard Burton
    Welsh actor (1925 - 1984)
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  • William Goldman Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
    William Goldman
    American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1931 - 2018)
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  • Michelle Obama Here in America, we don't give in to our fears. We don't build up walls to keep people out.
    Michelle Obama
    lawyer and former First Lady of the United States (1964 - )
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  • Barbara Amiel Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Brooke Burke I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Donald Trump I want a strong border. I do want a wall. Walls do work, you just have to speak to the folks in Israel. Walls work if they're properly constructed. I know how to build, believe me, I know how to build.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Brad Holland In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Epicurus It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Barack Obama It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Eugene O'Neill Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
    Eugene O'Neill
    American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature (1888 - 1953)
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  • Brad Holland Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Aristophanes Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Alcaeus of Mytilene Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
    Alcaeus of Mytilene
    Ancient Greek poet
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