Stone Walls Quotes

33 quotes by 26 authors

What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks… — Helen Keller
I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun… — Jean Webster
Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be… — Mao Zedong
Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is it that binds us to this place as to no other? It is not the well, or the bell, or the stone walls,… — Charles Kuralt
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were… — Charles Spurgeon
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. — Richard Lovelace
To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds… — Margaret Atwood
PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make. — Ambrose Bierce
The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the… — Haruki Murakami
Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return to us after… — Teresa de la Parra
When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On… — Robert Frost
One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite… — John Burroughs
We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to. — William Glasser
Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart… — Charles de Lint
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race. — Walter Lippmann
She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower." "And?" Eddis prompted. "Well,"… — Megan Whalen Turner
When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like a stone wall.… — Roland Smith
Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don't know. All I know is that passion can take… — Deb Caletti

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