Wall Quotes · Page 18

“The height of a man’s wall or fence is usually a reflection of the depth or shallowness of his neighbours’ pockets.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street.

— Edwin Lefevre

Now I understand why King Stannis let the wildlings through the Wall. He means for us to eat them.

— Anonymous

I posted on your wall. No, not Facebook, look at the side of your house

— Anonymous

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.

— Heraclitus

Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

— James G. Stavridis

There's four sides to every story... If these walls could talk, they'd probably still ignore me.

— Daniel Dumile

It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.

— Billy Corgan

To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of…

— Thomas Huxley

We are paying teachers who are in charge of our human capital, arguably more important than our financial capital, a very tiny…

— Robert Reich

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job…

— George Orwell

The smoke from the fire passes through the building and the soot affixes itself to the walls. The smoke passes through the…

— Frederick Lenz

Each one of us is called to be an artisan of peace, by uniting and not dividing, by extinguishing hatred and not…

— Pope Francis

Growing up, road trips with Dad were something I hated. Sitting still for hours, singing that stupid song, "100 bottles of beer…

— Christopher Titus

My friend Sally is a nudist. I went to her house. The closets have no doors. The walls are covered with see-through…

— Steven Wright

Yesterday President Obama said, 'We can't continue to treat tax money like monopoly money.' Oh really - how come all those guys…

— Jay Leno

To recognize that mystery, we must go down deep into ourselves, into that place where the walls of our being are layered…

— Meinrad Craighead

The Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer…

— Elliott Abrams

We could have saved Wall Street without putting our future in jeopardy. I predicted that there would be all-around consequences - in…

— Joseph Stiglitz

I was kind of scared at first to do that [vice-over] because when you're on set, a lot of the things going…

— Elle Fanning

And what are you that, missing you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the…

— Stephen Ambrose

... That would be like stepping in front of a moving train and saying, 'Hey, honey, come stand next to me.'" I…

— Ilona Andrews

Maybe we should be directing our anger elsewhere - like toward Wall Street. Why is it we never think of Big Business…

— Michael Moore

I've said some things that are a little bit off the wall, but I don't run away and hide from them.

— Jim Boeheim

Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?

— Rumi

It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.

— Mary Roach

[Occupy Wall Street] had an impact on consciousness. It was not effective in realizing change.

— Edward Snowden

Photographs are things that should be pinned on a wall, and when you stop liking them - just tear them up!

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

— Carlos Castaneda

I went through a long period when I thought my photographs were not visible - on the wall, but not visible.

— Jack Welpott

Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.

— William Shakespeare

I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall... with wax crayons.

— Robert Ingpen

I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

— Oscar Wilde

Imagine if your kids had to carry a ladder to climb an apartheid wall to get to school everyday.

— Omar Suleiman

Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls

— Robert Walser

I don't want to take power. I want to break the wall of this autocratic regime.

— Ksenia Sobchak

A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

— Barbara Amiel