Stone Walls Quotes
33 quotes by 26 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
— Richard Lovelace
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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
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PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Stone Walls Quotes
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